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. 2014 May 27;7:15. doi: 10.3389/fneng.2014.00015

Table 3.

Summary of the combinations of coatings and biomolecules which have been investigated for improving the interaction of electrodes and neural cells.

Application Coating Biomolecule Reference
Cell attachment PEDOT DCDPGYIGSR and DEDEDYFQRYLI Green et al. (2010b)
PEDOT DCDPGYIGSR and DEDEDYFQRYLI Green et al. (2009)
PEDOT Fibronectin fragments DCDPGYIGSR Cui and Martin (2003)
PPy Fibronectin fragments Nonapeptide CDPGYIGSR Cui et al. (2001b)
CNT Collagen type IV Nguyen-Vu et al. (2006)
Anti-inflammatory PPy HA Collier et al. (2000)
PPy Dexamethasone Wadhwa et al. (2006)
PEDOT electrodeposited on PLGA nanofibers Dexamethasone Abidian et al. (2006)
Polyterthiophene Dexamethasone phosphate Stevenson et al. (2010)
Alginate hydrogel loaded with Poly(lactic-co-glicolide)(PLGA) nanoparticles Dexamethasone Kim and Martin (2006)
Nitrocellulose αMSH Zhong and Bellamkonda (2005),2007
Silicon αMSH He et al. (2007)
Multiwalled CNTs Dexamethasone Luo et al. (2011a)
Growth factors Methylcellulose PDGF-BB and IGF-1 Wells et al. (1997)
Poly (ethylene-co-vinyl acetate) (EVA) (EVA rods) NGF, NT-3, BDNF and GDNF, Bloch et al. (2001), Barras et al. (2002), Fine et al. (2002)
Agarose NGF and Laminin Yu and Bellamkonda (2003)
Collagen NT-3 Houweling et al. (1998)
PEG and PEG-PLA NT-3 Burdick et al. (2006), Piantino et al. (2006)
Agarose BNDF Jain et al. (2006)
Fibrin Heparin binding delivery system (HBDS) and NT-3 Taylor and Sakiyama-Elbert (2006)
PPy Laminin fragments RNIAEIIKDI (p20) Stauffer and Cui (2006)
PEG-PLA NGF, Winter et al. (2007)
pHEMA-lysine NGF, Jhaveri et al. (2008)
Fibrin NGF Lee et al. (2003)
Multiwalled CNT NGF Matsumoto et al. (2007)

HA, hyaluronic acid; αMSH, α-melanocyte stimulating hormone; NGF, nerve growth factor; PDGF-BB, platelet derived growth factor-BB; IGF-1, insulin-like growth factor-1; BDNF, brain derived neurotrophic factor; GDNF, glial cell-derived neurotrophic factor; NT-3 – neurotrophin 3; HBDS, heparin binding delivery system; PEG, poly(ethylene glycol); PEG-PLA, poly(ethylene glycol)-poly(lactic acid); and CNT, carbon nanotube.