Aurora Messina

Reanimating hand function after spinal cord injury using nerve transfer surgery

Mary Galea, Aurora Messina, Bridget Hill, Catherine Cooper, Jodie Hahn, Natasha van Zyl

Journal article  |  2020  |  Advances in Clinical Neuroscience & Rehabilitation

Loss of arm and hand function is a devastating consequence of cervical spinal cord injury. Tendon transfer surgery has traditional..

Morphology of Donor and Recipient Nerves Utilised in Nerve Transfers to Restore Upper Limb Function in Cervical Spinal Cord Injury

Aurora Messina, Natasha Van Zyl, Michael Weymouth, Stephen Flood, Andrew Nunn, Catherine Cooper, Jodie Hahn, Mary P Galea

Journal article  |  2016  |  BRAIN SCIENCES

Loss of hand function after cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) impacts heavily on independence. Multiple nerve transfer surgery has..

Long-Term Persistence of Tissue-Engineered Adipose Flaps in a Murine Model to 1 Year: An Update

Michael W Findlay, Aurora Messina, Erik W Thompson, Wayne A Morrison

Journal article  |  2009  |  PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY

BACKGROUND: Tissue engineering of patient-specific adipose tissue has the potential to revolutionize reconstructive surgery. Numer..

Vascularization of Engineered Constructs

Zerina Lokmic, Rejhan Idrizi, Aurora Messina, Kenneth Knight, Wayne Morrison, Geraldine Mitchell

Book Chapter  |  2008

The role of biological extracellular matrix scaffolds in vascularized three-dimensional tissue growth in vivo (vol 82B, pg 122, 2007)

Kevin J Cronin, Aurora Messina, Erik W Thompson, Wayne A Morrison, Geoffrey W Stevens, Kenneth R Knight

Journal article  |  2008  |  JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS RESEARCH PART B-APPLIED BIOMATERIALS

Vascularisation of engineered constructs

Z Lokmic, R Idrizi, A Messina, KR Knight, WA Morrison, GM Mitchell

Book Chapter  |  2008

Myogel, a novel, basement membrane-rich, extracellular matrix derived from skeletal muscle, is highly adipogenic in vivo and in vitro

KM Abberton, SK Bortolotto, AA Woods, M Findlay, WA Morrison, EW Thompson, A Messina

Journal article  |  2008  |  CELLS TISSUES ORGANS

BACKGROUND/AIMS: Biological and synthetic scaffolds play important roles in tissue engineering and are being developed towards hum..

Host rather than graft origin of matrigel-induced adipose tissue in the murine tissue-engineering chamber

Filip Stillaert, Michael Findlay, Jason Palmer, Rejhan Idrizi, Shirley Cheang, Aurora Messina, Keren Abberton, Wayne Morrison, Erik W Thompson

Journal article  |  2007  |  TISSUE ENGINEERING

We have recently shown that Matrigel-filled chambers containing fibroblast growth factor-2 (FGF2) and placed around an epigastric ..

Quantitative characterization of regenerating axons after end-to-side and end-to-end coaptation in a rat brachial plexus model: A retrograde tracer study

Kanit Sananpanich, Mary P Galea, Wayne A Morrison, Aurora Messina

Journal article  |  2007  |  JOURNAL OF NEUROTRAUMA

The efficacy of end-to-side repair as a method of nerve reconstruction has been questioned, and most studies that characterize the..

Matrigel-induced adipogenesis is host rather than graft derived in the murine tissue engineering chamber

FBJL Stillaert, M Findlay, R Idrizi, J Palmer, S Cheang, A Messina, K Abberton, P Blondeel, WA Morrison, EW Thompson

Journal article  |  2006  |  Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery