Fiber templating of poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) for neural tissue engineering

Biomaterials

Volumn 24, Issue 23, 2003, Pages 4265-4272

  Flynn, Lauren ^a,b   Dalton, Paul D ^a,b   Shoichet, Molly S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fibers; Hydrogel; Nerve guidance channel; Orientation; pHEMA; Polycaprolactone; Regeneration; Scaffold; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; HYDROGELS; NEUROLOGY; POROSITY;

ENTUBULATION STRATEGIES;

TISSUE CULTURE;

ACETONE; POLYCAPROLACTONE; POLYMACON; WATER;

ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL INVASION; COMPOSITE MATERIAL; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CROSS LINKING; DISSOLUTION; EMBEDDING; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; FLUID BALANCE; HYDROGEL; NERVE FIBER; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVOUS TISSUE; PARTICLE SIZE; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SYNTHESIS; TISSUE ENGINEERING; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 0037677771     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0142-9612(03)00334-X     Document Type: Article

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