Biodegradable amino acid-hydrogel porous scaffold for the tissue engineering of the heart valve

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2002, Pages 856-857

  Nair, Prabha D ^a   Cuy, Janet ^a   Giachelli, Cecilia M ^a   Ratner, Buddy D ^a   Vogel, Viola ^a   Nerem, Robert M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amino acid hydrogel; Aortic valve endothelial cells; Scaffold; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; AMINO ACIDS; BIODEGRADATION; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CELLS; GROWTH KINETICS; HYDROGELS; POROUS MATERIALS; TISSUE CULTURE;

CELL ADHESION PROTEINS; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; GROWTH FACTORS; HEART VALVE; POROUS SCAFFOLD; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM;

EID: 0036907870     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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