Mechanical Flexibility Reduces the Foreign Body Response to Long-Term Implanted Microelectrodes in Rabbit Cortex

• Harbaljit S. Sohal ,

  * E-mail: hsohal@northwell.edu

  Affiliations Center for Bioelectronic Medicine, Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhassett, NY, 11030, United States of America, Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, United Kingdom

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• Gavin J. Clowry,

  Affiliation Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, United Kingdom

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• Andrew Jackson ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew Jackson, Anthony O’Neill, Stuart N. Baker

  Affiliation Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, United Kingdom

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• Anthony O’Neill ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew Jackson, Anthony O’Neill, Stuart N. Baker

  Affiliation School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, United Kingdom

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• Stuart N. Baker

  Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew Jackson, Anthony O’Neill, Stuart N. Baker

  Affiliation Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, United Kingdom

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