Multimodal therapy strategies based on hydrogels for the repair of spinal cord injury
Open Access
- 12 April 2022
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Military Medical Research
- Vol. 9 (1), 1-15
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s40779-022-00376-1
Abstract
Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a serious traumatic disease of the central nervous system, which can give rise to the loss of motor and sensory function. Due to its complex pathological mechanism, the treatment of this disease still faces a huge challenge. Hydrogels with good biocompatibility and biodegradability can well imitate the extracellular matrix in the microenvironment of spinal cord. Hydrogels have been regarded as promising SCI repair material in recent years and continuous studies have confirmed that hydrogel-based therapy can effectively eliminate inflammation and promote spinal cord repair and regeneration to improve SCI. In this review, hydrogel-based multimodal therapeutic strategies to repair SCI are provided, and a combination of hydrogel scaffolds and other therapeutic modalities are discussed, with particular emphasis on the repair mechanism of SCI.This publication has 83 references indexed in Scilit:
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