Quantification of single human dermal fibroblast contraction

Tissue Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 281-291

  Fray, Tim R ^a,c   Molloy, Justin E ^a,c   Armitage, Mark P ^b,c   Sparrow, John C ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b Smith and Nephew Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

^c Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL ACTIVITY; CELL COMPOSITION; CELL FUNCTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOARCHITECTURE; FIBROBLAST; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BIOMECHANICS; CELL SIZE; DIMETHYLPOLYSILOXANES; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; SKIN; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0031686586     PISSN: 10763279     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.1998.4.281     Document Type: Conference Paper

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