Novel alginate sponges for cell culture and transplantation

Biomaterials

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 583-590

  Shapiro, Lilia ^a   Cohen, Smadar ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Alginate; Cell transplantation; Scaffolds; Sponges

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; BIOMATERIALS; CELL CULTURE; COMPOSITION EFFECTS; CROSSLINKING; FREEZING; GELATION; HYDROGELS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; POLYSACCHARIDES; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS;

ALGINATE SPONGES; LYOPHILIZATION;

COPOLYMERS;

ALGINIC ACID; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; GLUCONATE CALCIUM; STRONTIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL SHAPE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CROSS LINKING; DEGRADATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROBLAST; FREEZING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPONGE;

ALGINATES; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CELL DIVISION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; FIBROBLASTS; GLUCURONIC ACID; HEXURONIC ACIDS; HUMANS; MECHANICS; POLYSACCHARIDES; REGENERATION;

ALGAE;

EID: 0031128315     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0142-9612(96)00181-0     Document Type: Article

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