Engineering micropatterned surfaces for the coculture of hepatocytes and Kupffer cells

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research - Part A

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 242-248

  Zinchenko, Yekaterina S ^a   Coger, Robin N ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

Author keywords

Hepatocytes; Kupffer cells; Micropatterning; PDMS; Surface characterization

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; CELLS; MORPHOLOGY;

BIOARTIFICIAL LIVER (BAL); HEPATOCYTES; MICROPATTERNING; SURFACE CHARACTERIZATION;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

DIMETICONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOARTIFICIAL ORGAN; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL POPULATION; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; KUPFFER CELL; LIVER CELL; NONHUMAN; RAT; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; COLLAGEN; CULTURE MEDIA; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; DIMETHYLPOLYSILOXANES; HEPATOCYTES; KUPFFER CELLS; LIVER; LIVER, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; RATS; SILICONES; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE ENGINEERING; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 24944440897     PISSN: 00219304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.30399     Document Type: Article

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