Stanford Stroke Center and Stanford University School of Medicine

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Bioengineering

Electrically Conductive Scaffold to Modulate and Deliver Stem Cells

Byeongtaek Oh¹, Alexa Levinson¹, Vivek Lam¹, Shang Song¹, Paul George^1,2

¹Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, ²Stanford Stroke Center and Stanford University School of Medicine

This protocol describes fabrication of a cell culture system to allow seeding of stem cells on a conductive polymer scaffold for in vitro electrical stimulation and subsequent in vivo implantation of the stem cell-seeded scaffold using a minimally invasive technique.