Soft Tissue Membrane from Umbilical Cord for Modulating Inflammation during Surgery
January 24, 2017 | Terry Sharrer
In some cases of nerve grafting, surgeons use a conduit to hold severed endings in place, and often the conduit is made of amniotic sac membrane. This material contains growth factors, cytokines and hyaluronic acid that stimulate reattachment, but AxoGen (Alachua, FL) has found that umbilical cord tissue, which is eight times thicker than amniotic tissue, is a better membrane for wrapping nerves because it takes longer to reabsorb. A nerve may only grow about an inch a month, so a longer lasting conduit gives more time to heal. MORE
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