Cardiac Cell Networks on Elastic Microgrooved Scaffolds

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 108-112

  Bien, Harold ^a,b,c   Yin, Lihong ^d   Entcheva, Emilia ^c  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IEEE   (United States)

^c St Francis Hospital The Heart Center   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTICITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE CELL; IMAGING; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MECHANICS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; RAT; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ACTINS; ACTION POTENTIALS; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIVISION; CELL POLARITY; DIMETHYLPOLYSILOXANES; ELASTICITY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; SILICONES; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0345733801     PISSN: 07395175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MEMB.2003.1256279     Document Type: Article

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