Nerve Regeneration: A Silk Sericin/Silicone Nerve Guidance Conduit Promotes Regeneration of a Transected Sciatic Nerve (Adv. Healthcare Mater. 15/2015)

A novel sericin nerve guidance conduit for the repair of peripheral nerve injury is designed and fabricated by L. Wang and Z. Wang's research team. On p. 2195, the authors show how this conduit, with physical properties optimized towards nerve regeneration, can increase the expression of neurotrophic factors and effectively promote the regeneration of the sciatic nerve, leading to functional recovery comparable to that resulted from nerve autograft.