Silk fibroin as biomaterial for drug delivery promoting nerve regeneration

What is it about?

Regeneration of peripheral nerves sometimes requires the support of biomaterials, expecially for long nerve gap. This is a medical need. Their use, implant surgical procedure and clinical outcomes may be improved by the application of pro-regenerative drugs. We already proved that GABA and ALLO have a biological role in peripheral nerve. We produced a silk fibroin biomaterial functionalized with GABA and/or allopregnanolone exhibiting promising biological properties

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Why is it important?

The implementation of silk fibroin biomaterial with GABA and/or allopregnanolone drugs may be useful to improve biofunctional regeneration of peripheral nerves.