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NATURE MATERIALS
卷 10, 期 12, 页码 980-986出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NMAT3146
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center (National Institutes of Health) [UL1 RR 025758]
- Harvard University and its affiliated academic health-care centres
Conventional functional electrical stimulation aims to restore functional motor activity of patients with disabilities resulting from spinal cord injury or neurological disorders. However, intervention with functional electrical stimulation in neurological diseases lacks an effective implantable method that suppresses unwanted nerve signals. We have developed an electrochemical method to activate and inhibit a nerve by electrically modulating ion concentrations in situ along the nerve. Using ion-selective membranes to achieve different excitability states of the nerve, we observe either a reduction of the electrical threshold for stimulation by up to approximately 40%, or voluntary, reversible inhibition of nerve signal propagation. This low-threshold electrochemical stimulation method is applicable in current implantable neuroprosthetic devices, whereas the on-demand nerve-blocking mechanism could offer effective clinical intervention in disease states caused by uncontrolled nerve activation, such as epilepsy and chronic pain syndromes.
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