A new preparation method for anisotropic silk fibroin nerve guidance conduits 11 and its evaluation in vitro and in a rat sciatic nerve defect model 12

1 „This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: A new preparation method for anisotropic silk 2 fibroin nerve guidance conduits and its evaluation in vitro and in a rat sciatic nerve defect model Andreas 3 Teuschl, Christina Schuh, Robert Halbweis, Krisztián Pajer, Gábor Márton, Rudolf Hopf, Shorena Mosia, 4 Dominik Rünzler, Heinz Redl, Antal Nógrádi, Thomas Hausner TISSUE ENGINEERING: Part C 5 Volume 21, Number 9, 2015 doi: 10.1089/ten.tec.2014.0606, which has been published in final form at 6 10.1089/ten.tec.2014.0606. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley 7 Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving." 8 9