Creating alignment and anisotropy in engineered heart tissue: Role of boundary conditions in a model three-dimensional culture system

Tissue Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 567-577

  Costa, Kevin D ^a,b   Lee, Eun Jung ^a   Holmes, Jeffrey W ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENDOCARDIUM; EPICARDIUM; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROBLAST; GEL; GEOMETRY; HEART; HEART MUSCLE; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAR; SKIN FIBROBLAST; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TISSUE CULTURE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ANISOTROPY; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; COLLAGEN; FIBROBLASTS; GELS; GRAVITATION; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MYOCARDIUM; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0042360407     PISSN: 10763279     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/107632703768247278     Document Type: Article

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