1.0 Neural Tissue Engineering
Nerve injury and loss are common clinical problems, that can cause significant affects to a patient’s overall quality of life: Whether within the Peripheral or Central Nervous Systems. Neural Engineering is a sub-discipline within Biomedical Engineering that utilizes engineering techniques to understand, repair, replace and even enhance the properties of the neural system. In the field of Neural Tissue Engineering, the practice has been greatly limited to the spinal cord and peripheral nervous system. As such, the main focus of this paper is in the various formats that have been implemented in the past, and current methods employed today in order to facilitate nerve regeneration within the peripheral nerves.…