A novel pulsatile, laminar flow bioreactor for the development of tissue-engineered vascular structures

Tissue Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1083-1088

  Thompson, Craig A ^a   Colon Hernandez, Pedro ^a   Pomerantseva, Irina ^a   MacNeil, Brian D ^a   Nasseri, Boris ^a   Vacanti, Joseph P ^a   Oesterle, Stephen N ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MARKER;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTERY CONSTRICTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BIODEGRADABILITY; BIOREACTOR; BURST FORMING UNIT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL SECRETION; COLLAGEN METABOLISM; FLOW KINETICS; FLUID TRANSPORT; HYPOTHESIS; LAMINAR FLOW; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; POLYMERIZATION; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PULSATILE FLOW; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SUTURE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TUBE; VASCULAR TISSUE; WAVEFORM;

BIOREACTORS; BLOOD VESSELS; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; POLYGLYCOLIC ACID; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0036892710     PISSN: 10763279     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/107632702320934173     Document Type: Article

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