Three-dimensional engineered heart tissue from neonatal rat cardiac myocytes

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 106-114

  Zimmermann, Wolfram H ^a   Fink, Christine ^a   Kralisch, Dirk ^a   Remmers, Ute ^a   Weil, Joachim ^a   Eschenhagen, Thomas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adenovirus gene transfer; Cardiac myocytes; Cell culture; Heart physiology; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; SILICONE; VIRUS VECTOR;

ADENOVIRUS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TRANSFER; HEART HYPERTROPHY; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; RAT;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034607453     PISSN: 00063592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0290(20000405)68:1<106::AID-BIT13>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Article

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