Regenerative Nerve Interface Enhances Precision and Durability of Hand Prostheses (2 of 12) (VIDEO)

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The procedure for creating the University of Michigan Regenerative Peripheral Nerve Interface, or RPNI, consists of making a clean cut at the end of a nerve, suturing it to a small muscle graft, wrapping the graft around the nerve and stitching it shut. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Mar. 4, 2020, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by P.P. Vu at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI; and colleagues was titled, "A regenerative peripheral nerve interface allows real-time control of an artificial hand in upper limb amputees."

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[Credit: Steve Alvey/University of Michigan Engineering]

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