Papers

Allodi, I., Udina, E., Navarro, X.(2012): Specificity of peripheral nerve regeneration: Interactions at the axon level; Progress in Neurobiology 98 (2012) 16-37

Allodi I., Casals-Díaz L., Santos-Nogueira E., Gonzalez-Perez F., Navarro X., Udina E. FGF-2 low molecular weight selectively promotes neuritogenesis of motor neurons. Mol Neurobiol 2013, 47:770-781.

Allodi I., Mecollari V., González-Pérez F., Eggers R., Hoyng S., Verhaagen J., Navarro X., Udina E. Schwann cells transduced with a lentiviral vector encoding Fgf-2 promote motor neuron regeneration following sciatic nerve injury. Glia 2014, 62:1736-46.

Assunção-Silva R., Costa-Oliveira C., Ziv-Polat O., Gomes E.D., Shahar A., Sousa N., Silva N.A., Salgado A.J. Induction of Neurite Outgrowth in 3D Hydrogel-Based Environments. Biomedical Materials, 2015 Oct 20; 10(5):051001.

Arbat-Plana A., Torres-Espín A., Navarro X., Udina E. Activity dependent therapies modulate the spinal changes that motoneurons suffer after a peripheral nerve injury. Exp Neurol 2015 Jan;263:293-305. doi: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2014.10.009. Epub 2014 Oct 23.

Buskbjerg Jager S, Ronchi G., Bjerggaard Vaegter C, Geuna S. The mouse median nerve experimental model in regenerative research. Biomed Res Int. 2014;2014:701682.

Chemnitz A., Dahlin LB., Carlsson IK. Consequences and adaptation in daily life - patients' experiences three decades after a nerve injury sustained in adolescence. BMC Muscoloskel Dis 2013, 22(14):252.

Cobianchi S., de Cruz J., Navarro X. Assessment of sensory thresholds and nociceptive fiber growth after sciatic nerve injury reveal the differential contribution of collateral reinnervation and nerve regeneration to neuropathic pain. Exp Neurol 2014, 255:1-11.

Gambarotta G., Ronchi G., Geuna S., Perroteau I. Neuregulin 1 isoforms could be an effective therapeutic candidate to promote peripheral nerve regeneration. Neural Regen Res. 2014 15;9(12):1183-5.

Gambarotta G., Ronchi G., Friard O, Galletta P, Perroteau I., Geuna S. Identification and validation of suitable housekeeping genes for normalizing quantitative real-time PCR assays in injured peripheral nerves. PLoS One. 2014 Aug 21;9(8):e105601.

Gambarotta G., Pascal D., Ronchi G., Morano M., Jager S.B., Moimas S., Zentilin L., Giacca M., Perroteau I., Tos P., Geuna S., Raimondo S. Local delivery of the Neuregulin1 receptor ecto-domain (ecto-ErbB4) has a positive effect on regenerated nerve fibre maturation. Gene Ther. 2015 May 4

Geuna S., Raimondo S., Fregnan F., Haastert-Talini K., Grothe C. In vitro models for peripheral nerve regeneration. Eur J Neurosci. 2015 Aug 26

Geuna S., Herrera-Rincon C. Update on stereology for light microscopy. Cell Tissue Res. 2015 Apr;360(1):5-12.

Geuna S. The sciatic nerve injury model in pre-clinical research. J Neurosci Methods. 2015 Mar 30;243:39-46. doi:

Gnavi S., Fornasari B.E., Tonda-Turo C., Laurano R., Zanetti M., Ciardelli G., Geuna S. The Effect of Electrospun Gelatin Fibres Alignment on Schwann Cell and Axon Behavior and Organization in the Perspective of Artificial Nerve Design. Int J Mol Sci. 2015 Jun 8;16(6):12925-42

Gonzalez-Perez F., Cobianchi S., Geuna S., Barwig C., Freier T., Udina E., Navarro X. Tubulization with chitosan guides for the repair of long gap peripheral nerve injury in the rat. Microsurgery 2015 May;35(4):300-8.

Gonzalez-Perez F., Alé A., Santos D., Barwig C., Freier T., Navarro X., Udina E. Substratum preferences of motor and sensory axons in postnatal and adult rats. Eur J Neurosci 2015 Aug 31

López-Álvarez V.M., Modol L., Navarro X., Cobianchi S. Early increasing-intensity treadmill exercise reduces neuropathic pain by preventing nociceptor collateral sprouting and disruption of chloride cotransporters homeostasis after peripheral nerve injury. Pain 2015 Sep;156(9):1812-25

Haastert-Talini, K., Geuna, S., Dahlin, L. B., Meyer, C., StenbergL., Freier, T, Heimann, C., Barwig, C.,  Pinto, L. F.V., Raimondo, S., Gambarotta, G., Samy, S. R., Sousa, N., Salgado, A. J., Ratzka, A., Wrobel, S., Grothe, C. (2013): Chitosan tubes of varying degrees of acetylation for bridging peripheral nerve defects. Biomaterials 34 (2013), pp. 9886-9904

Hallgren A., Björkman A., Chemnitz A., Dahlin L.B.. Subjective outcome related to donor site morbidity after sural nerve graft harvesting: a survey in 41 patients. BMC Surg. 2013, 13:39.

Meyer, C.,Wrobel, S., Raimondo, S., Rochkind, S., Heimann, C., Shahar, A., Ziv-Polat, O., Geuna, S., Grothe, C., Haastert-Talini, K. Peripheral nerve regeneration through hydrogel enriched chitosan tubes containing engineered Schwann cells for drug delivery. Cell Transplantation, April 2015, in press 

Meyer C., Wrobel S., Raimondo S., Rochkind S., Heimann C., Shahar A., Ziv-Polat O., Geuna S., Grothe C., Haastert-Talini K. Peripheral nerve regeneration through hydrogel enriched chitosan conduits containing engineered Schwann cells for drug delivery. Cell Transplant. 2015 Apr 14.

Meyer C., Stenberg L., Gonzalez-Perez F., Wrobel S., Ronchi G., Udina E., Suganuma S., Geuna S., Navarro X., Dahlin L.B., Grothe C. , Haastert-Talini K. Chitosan-film enhanced chitosan nerve guides for long-distance regeneration of peripheral nerves. Biomaterials. 2015 Oct 21;76:33-51.

Morano M., Wrobel S., Fregnan F., Ziv-Polat O., Shahar A., Geuna S., Grothe C., Haastert-Talini K. Nanotechnology versus stem cell engineering - In vitro-comparison of neurite inductive potentials. Int J Nanomedicine 9(1):5289-5306

Oliveira N.G., Sirgado T., Reis L., Pinto L.F.V., da Silva C.L., Ferreira F.C., Rodrigues A. In vitro assessment of three dimensional dense chitosan-based structures to be used as bioabsorbable implants, Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials 40 2014, 413–425.

Oliveira N.G., Rodrigues A., Reis L., Pinto L.F.V. Trends in Bioabsorbable Osteosynthesis Devices: Introduction to a Novel Production Process of Chitosan-Based Implants, J. Chitin Chitosan Sci. 2013, Vol. 1, No. 3, 1-11.

Oliveira N.G., Pinto L.F.V., Reis L., Rodrigues A.  Competitiveness of chitosan-based implants. Ciência & Tecnologia dos Materiais, 26, 77–88, July-December 2014

Ronchi G., Raimondo S., Geuna S., Gambarotta G. New insights on the standardization of peripheral nerve regeneration quantitative analysis. Neural Regen Res. 2015 May;10(5):707-9

Ronchi G., Haastert-Talini K., Fornasari B.E., Perroteau I., Geuna S., Gambarotta G. The Neuregulin1/ErbB system is selectively regulated during peripheral nerve degeneration and regeneration. Eur J Neurosci. 2015 Jun 8

Shapira, Y., Tolmasov, M., Nissan, M., Reider, E., Koren, A., Biron, T., Bitan, Y., Geuna, S., Rochkind, S. Comparison of results between chitosan hollow tube and autologous nerve graft in reconstruction of peripheral nerve defect: An experimental study. Microsurgery, April 2015. DOI: 10.1002/micr.22418

Silva R., Oliveira C, Polat O., Gomes E.D., Sahar  A., Sousa N., Silva  N.A., Salgado A.J. Induction of Neurite Outgrowth in 3D Hydrogel-Based Environments. Biomed Mater. 2015 Oct 20;10(5):051001

Stenberg, L., Kanje, M., Dolezal, K., Dahlin, L.B.(2012): Expression of activationg transcription Factor 3 (ATF 3) and caspase Schwann cells and axonal outgrowth after sciatic nerve repair in diabetic BB rats; Neuroscience letters 515 (2012) 34-38

Stenberg L., Dahlin L.B.. Gender differences in nerve regeneration after sciatic nerve injury and repair in healthy and in type 2 diabetic Goto-Kakizaki rats. BMC Neurosci. 2014, 15:107.

Stenberg L., Kodama A., Lindwall- Blom C., Dahlin L.B. Nerve regeneration in chitosan conduits and in autologous nerve grafts in healthy and in type 2 diabetic Goto-Kakizaki rats. Eur J Neurosci. 2015 Sep 10.

Wrobel S., Serra S.C., Ribeiro-Samy S., Sousa N., Heimann C., Barwig C., Grothe C., Salgado A.J., Haastert-Talini K. (2014): In Vitro Evaluation of Cell-Seeded Chitosan Films for Peripheral Nerve Tissue Engineering. Tissue Engineering Part A

Ziv-Polat O, Shahar A, Levy I, Skaat H, Neuman S, Fregnan F, Geuna S, Grothe C, Haastert-Talini K, Margel S. (2014):  The role of neurotrophic factors conjugated to iron oxide nanoparticles in peripheral nerve regeneration - in vitro studies. BioMed Research International, Vol 2014 (2014)

Ziv-Polat O., Margel S., Shahar A. Application of iron oxide nanoparticles in neuronal tissue engineering. Neural Regen Res. 2015 Feb;10(2):189-91

Letter to the Editor: "BIOHYBRID-Biohybrid templates for peripheral nerve regeneration", Grothe et al. , Journal of the Peripheral Nervous System 17:220–222 (2012)