Aligned fibers enhance nerve guide conduits when bridging peripheral nerve defects focused on early repair stage

Author contributions: Study concept: QQ, HYM, QZ, and SBL; Data curation: QQ, BC, and GBL; formal analysis: QQ and HYM; funding acquisition: QZ, SBL, JP, and YW. Investigation: QQ, HYM, BC, and XQC. Methodology: QQ, HYM, and JP. Resources: QZ, SBL, JP, and YW. Software: QQ, BC, and HT. Supervision: QQ, SBL, and QZ. Validation: QQ and SBL. Visualization: QQ, HYM, HT, BC, and XQC. Writing and original draft: QQ, HYM, and YW. Writing, review and editing: QQ and HYM. All authors approved the final version of the paper