Microfabricated fractal trees as scaffolds for capillary morphogenesis: Applications in therapeutic angiogenesis and vascular tissue engineering

Proceedings of the IEEE-EMBS Special Topic Conference on Molecular, Cellular and Tissue Engineering, MCTE 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 46-47

  Ciaravella, G ^a   Vozzi, G ^a,c   Bianchi, F ^a,c   Rosi, M ^a   Costanza, C ^b   Madeddu, P ^b   Ahluwalia, A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b INBB National Laboratory   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Capillary; Microfabrication; Therapeutic angiogenesis; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; FRACTALS; MICROANALYSIS; MICROFABRICATION; SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY); TISSUE;

BIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CAPILLARY; CAPILLARY MORPHOGENESIS; FRACTAL ALGORITHMS; HUMAN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; MICROFABRICATION METHODS; THERAPEUTIC ANGIOGENESIS; VASCULAR TISSUE ENGINEERING;

TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 2342434390     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MCTE.2002.1174996     Document Type: Conference Paper

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