Engineering and cell attachment properties of human fibronectin-fibrinogen scaffolds for use in tissue engineered blood vessels

Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 53-59

  Harding, S ^a   Afoke, A ^b   Brown, R ^a   MacLeod, A ^c   Shamlou, P ^a   Dunnill, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

^c SCOTTISH NATIONAL BLOOD TRANSFUSION SERVICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cell matrix; Natural scaffolds; Tissue engineering; Vascular graft

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; CELL ADHESION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMIDITY; IN VITRO STUDY; LAMINAR FLOW; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; TENSILE STRENGTH; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0036214367     PISSN: 16157591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004490100268     Document Type: Article

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