Mechanical stretch regimen enhances the formation of bioengineered autologous cardiac muscle grafts

Circulation

Volumn 106, Issue 13 SUPPL., 2002, Pages

  Akhyari, Payam ^a   Fedak, Paul W M ^a   Weisel, Richard D ^a   Lee, Tsu Yee Joseph ^a   Verma, Subodh ^a   Mickle, Donald A G ^a   Li, Ren Ke ^a  

^a TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cardiac tissue engineering; Congenital cardiac defect; Mechanical stimulation

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; GELATIN; GELFOAM;

ARTICLE; CANADA; CELL COUNT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHILD; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART GRAFT; HEART MUSCLE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MECHANICAL STRESS; MUSCLE GRAFT; MUSCLE STRETCHING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TENSILE STRENGTH; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ABSORBABLE IMPLANTS; CELL DIVISION; CELLS, CULTURED; CHILD; COLLAGEN; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GELATIN SPONGE, ABSORBABLE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; KINETICS; MYOCARDIUM; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENSILE STRENGTH; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0037167701     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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