Materials approaches for modulating neural tissue responses to implanted microelectrodes through mechanical and biochemical means

S Sommakia, HC Lee, J Gaire, KJ Otto - Current Opinion in Solid State and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Implantable intracortical microelectrodes face an uphill struggle for widespread clinical use.
Their potential for treating a wide range of traumatic and degenerative neural disease is …

Visualization and Quantification of Penetration/Mass Transfer of Acrylic Resin Retanning Agent in Leather using Florescent Tracing Technique

Y Zeng, Y Song, J Li, W Zhang, B Shi - Journal of the American …, 2016 - journals.uc.edu
Acrylic resin is a widely used retanning agent in leatherprocessing, and its retanning
effectiveness is closely related to itspenetration depth and filling parts in leather. But acrylic …

Glial cells, but not neurons, exhibit a controllable response to a localized inflammatory microenvironment in vitro

S Sommakia, JL Rickus, KJ Otto - Frontiers in neuroengineering, 2014 - frontiersin.org
The ability to design long-lasting intracortical implants hinges on understanding the factors
leading to the loss of neuronal density and the formation of the glial scar. In this study, we …

Improving the brain machine interface via multiple Tetramethyl Orthosilicate sol-gel coatings on microelectrode arrays

MD McDermott, J Zhang, KJ Otto - 2015 7th International IEEE …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The failure of neurally implanted microelectrode arrays has been highly correlated with the
foreign body response (FBR). In order to maintain high fidelity signaling across the brain …

The effects of chronic neural implantation on localized vasculature

AL Ready - 2014 - search.proquest.com
Prosthetic solutions currently available range from simple devices intended for aesthetics
purposes to complex systems attempting to restore lost function and sensation; of these …