PEG-fusion of viable sciatic nerve isografts restores axonal structure and behavioral recovery after segmental-loss sciatic nerve injuries in Lewis rats

• Cathy Z. Yang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Cathy Z. Yang, Liwen Zhou

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

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• Liwen Zhou ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Cathy Z. Yang, Liwen Zhou

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

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• Alexander M. Schafer,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

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• Alexa N. Olivarez,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

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• Guhan Periyasamy,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

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• Varun Gokhale,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

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• Rhea Sood,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

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• Henry A. Garcia,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

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• Arjun Agarwal ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  ¶† Deceased.

  Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

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• Joseph F. Alderete,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

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• George D. Bittner

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bittner@austin.utexas.edu

  Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5610-6264

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