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US 9,539,009 B2Granted
Biological tissue connection and repair devices and methods of using same
AssigneeThe Johns Hopkins University
InventorsAhmet Hoke, Hai-Quan Mao
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Abstract
The instant invention provides compositions and methods for promoting the repair and/or growth of biological tissue, e.g., tubular biological tissue such as nerves. Specifically, the instant invention provides tissue connection devices and tissue repair devices and methods for using these devices.
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A sutureless tissue connection device for connecting biological tissue, comprising:
- a first tubular device comprising a first and a second end;
- a second tubular device comprising a first and a second end;
- wherein one end of the first and second tubular devices is adapted to attach to the ends of the biological tissue, and the other ends of the first and second tubular devices is adapted to attach to donor tissue, and
- wherein the first and second tubular devices comprise two separate half-tubular sections each section having an interior surface with an adhesive, a temperature sensitive polymer, adhesive nanostructure, or tissue-reactive groups formed thereon that assembles having an interior surface of a first half-tubular section disposed to overlap and bond to an exterior surface of a second half-tubular section at two diametrically opposed edges to form the sutureless tissue connection device.
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