Three-dimensional culture of human uterine smooth muscle myocytes on a resorbable scaffolding

Tissue Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 451-459

  Young, Roger C ^a,b   Schumann, Ralph ^a   Zhang, Peisheng ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYGLACTIN;

CELL CULTURE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CULTURE MEDIUM; FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MICROELECTRODE; MICROSCOPY; MYOMETRIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN GAUGE TRANSDUCER; TENSION; THICKNESS; UTERUS CONTRACTION; VIDEORECORDING;

BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; POLYGLACTIN 910; TISSUE ENGINEERING; UTERUS;

EID: 0038614689     PISSN: 10763279     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/107632703322066633     Document Type: Conference Paper

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