Fabrication of nano-structured porous PLLA scaffold intended for nerve tissue engineering

Biomaterials

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1891-1900

  Yang, F ^a   Murugan, R ^a   Ramakrishna, S ^a   Wang, X ^b   Ma, Y X ^b   Wang, S ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Nano fibers; Nerve stem cells; Nerve tissue engineering; Phase separation; Poly(L lactic acid); Porosity

Indexed keywords

CELLS; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; ORGANIC ACIDS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TISSUE;

NERVE TISSUE ENGINEERING (NTE);

NEUROLOGY;

NANOPARTICLE; POLYLACTIC ACID; POLYMER;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; IN VITRO STUDY; LIQUID LIQUID EXTRACTION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVOUS TISSUE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALE UP; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; STEM CELL; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0346500607     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2003.08.062     Document Type: Article

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