Effect of Immobilized Nerve Growth Factor on Conductive Polymers: Electrical Properties and Cellular Response

By Dong-Hwan Kim, S. Richardson-Burns, J. Hendricks, Cynthia Sequera, D. Martin. 2007

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Application of conductive polymers, scaffolds and electrical stimulation for nerve tissue engineering (2011, methodology): “Kim et al. (2007) incorporated nerve growth factor (NGF) as a co-dopant in the electrochemical deposition of PPy and PEDOT.”
Conductive polymers: towards a smart biomaterial for tissue engineering. (2014, methodology): “Furthermore, a great advantage of conductive polymers is that their chemical, electrical and physical properties can be tailored to the specific needs of their application by incorporating antibodies, enzymes and other biological moieties [1,4,7,8].”
Conducting polymers for neural interfaces: challenges in developing an effective long-term implant. (2008, methodology): “8 MU [10,25]”
Progress Towards Biocompatible Intracortical Microelectrodes for Neural Interfacing Applications (2014, background): “Several studies have shown that intracortical microelectrode functionality can be improved to some extent by coating the microelectrode surface with low-impedance conductive polymer with nanoscale roughness or porosity [43, 305], or through addition of cell adhesion peptides [305], proteins [260, 26”