Apparatus for mammalian nerve regeneration.

摘要

The invention relates to in vivo mammalian nerve regeneration of a damaged nerve, using an electric current through the damaged nerve while the nerve ends are abutted against one another, sutured together, or spaced apart from each other. The apparatus (20), which includes a nerve guide tube (32), is implantable in a human body (24) so that electric current passing through a pair of wires (28, 30) from a combined battery and resistor (26) can be maintained for an extended period of time to produce regeneration of the damaged nerve (22).