Tissue engineering in cardiovascular surgery: MTT, a rapid and reliable quantitative method to assess the optimal human cell seeding on polymeric meshes

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 519-524

  Zund, Gregor ^a   Ye, Qing ^a   Hoerstrup, Simon P ^a   Schoeberlein, Andreina ^a   Schmid, Andreas C ^a   Grunenfelder, Jurg ^a   Vogt, Paul ^a   Turina, Marko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cell seeding; Heart valves; MTT; Seeding intervals; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

POLYGLYCOLIC ACID; POLYMER;

AORTA; ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; CELL ADHESION; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MYOFIBROBLAST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CELL COUNT; CELLS, CULTURED; COLORIMETRY; COLORING AGENTS; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; FIBROBLASTS; HEART VALVES; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; POLYGLYCOLIC ACID; SURGICAL MESH; TETRAZOLIUM SALTS; THIAZOLES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032928823     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1010-7940(99)00068-8     Document Type: Article

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