Effects of fibrin micromorphology on neurite growth from dorsal root ganglia cultured in three-dimensional fibrin gels

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 551-559

  Herbert, Curtis B ^a,e   Nagaswami, Chandrasekaran ^b   Bittner, George D ^c   Hubbell, Jeffrey A ^d,f   Weisel, John W ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e University of Minnesota   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Coagulation; Electron microscopy; Fibrin tissue adhesive; Fibrinogen; Nerve regeneration

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; GELS; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROLOGY; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PROTEINS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

FIBRIN; FIBRINOGEN; NERVE REGENERATION;

TISSUE;

FIBRIN; FIBRINOGEN; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; TISSUE ADHESIVE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; CHICK EMBRYO; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; EMBRYO; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPINAL GANGLION;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIVISION; CELLS, CULTURED; CHICK EMBRYO; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBRIN; GANGLIA, SPINAL; GELS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NEURITES;

EID: 0032527073     PISSN: 00219304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4636(19980615)40:4<551::AID-JBM6>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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