Abstract
To describe the research progress of silk-based biomaterials in peripheral nerve repair and provide useful ideals to accelerate the regeneration of large-size peripheral nerve injury. The relative documents about silk-based biomaterials used in peripheral nerve regeneration were reviewed and the different strategies that could accelerate peripheral nerve regeneration through building bioactive microenvironment with silk fibroin were discussed. Many silk fibroin tissue engineered nerve conduits have been developed to provide multiple biomimetic microstructures, and different microstructures have different mechanisms of promoting nerve repair. Biomimetic porous structures favor the nutrient exchange at wound sites and inhibit the invasion of scar tissue. The aligned structures can induce the directional growth of nerve tissue, while the multiple channels promote the axon elongation. When the fillers are introduced to the conduits, better growth, migration, and differentiation of nerve cells can be achieved. Besides biomimetic structures, different nerve growth factors and bioactive drugs can be loaded on silk carriers and released slowly at nerve wounds, providing suitable biochemical cues. Both the biomimetic structures and the loaded bioactive ingredients optimize the niches of peripheral nerves, resulting in quicker and better nerve repair. With silk biomaterials as a platform, fusing multiple ways to achieve the multidimensional regulation of nerve microenvironments is becoming a critical strategy in repairing large-size peripheral nerve injury. Silk-based biomaterials are useful platforms to achieve the design of biomimetic hierarchical microstructures and the co-loading of various bioactive ingredients. Silk fibroin nerve conduits provide suitable microenvironment to accelerate functional recovery of peripheral nerves. Different optimizing strategies are available for silk fibroin biomaterials to favor the nerve regeneration, which would satisfy the needs of various nerve tissue repair. Bioactive silk conduits have promising future in large-size peripheral nerve regeneration.
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