Rapid prototyping of scaffolds derived from thermoreversible hydrogels and tailored for applications in tissue engineering

Biomaterials

Volumn 23, Issue 23, 2002, Pages 4437-4447

  Landers, Rüdiger ^a   Hübner, Ute ^b   Schmelzeisen, Rainer ^b   Mülhaupt, Rolf ^a  

^a Inst fur M C der A L U F   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D dispensing; 3D plotting; Hydrogel; Rapid prototyping; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

HYDROGELS; SCAFFOLDS; SOLUTIONS; SYNTHETIC TEXTILE FIBERS;

RAPID PROTOTYPING (RP);

BIOMATERIALS;

NATURAL PRODUCT;

ANIMAL CELL; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL CULTURE; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYDROGEL; LIQUID; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PASTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

AGAR; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIVISION; CELLS, CULTURED; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; HYDROGEL; HYDROGELS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; SOFTWARE; TEMPERATURE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0346634885     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0142-9612(02)00139-4     Document Type: Article

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