Mechanical strain-stimulated remodeling of tissue-engineered blood vessel constructs

Tissue Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 657-666

  Seliktar, Dror ^a,c   Nerem, Robert M ^a   Galis, Zorina S ^a,b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; ELASTIN; GELATINASE A;

ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLIC STRAIN; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MECHANICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; TISSUE CULTURE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; VASCULAR TISSUE;

ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSELS; COLLAGEN; ELASTIN; HUMANS; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0042360380     PISSN: 10763279     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/107632703768247359     Document Type: Article

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