Abstract
The macromolecule laminin, first described by R. Timpl in 1979 [11], has been shown to be the most potent neurite outgrowth promoting factor in cell culture experiments [2, 4] and in vivo [1, 6–8] known so far. In vivo, it occurs substrate-bound to basal lamina structures. The question arises whether the reported experimental findings have implications for future clinical nerve repair and regeneration.
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Müller, H., Dombert, T., Arnold, H. (1992). Experimental Peripheral Nerve Regeneration: Interposition of Placenta-Amnion Membrane and Umbilical Cord Versus Autologous Transplantation. In: Piscol, K., Klinger, M., Brock, M. (eds) Neurosurgical Standards Cerebral Aneurysms Malignant Gliomas. Advances in Neurosurgery, vol 20. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77109-5_66
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