Engineering vascularized skeletal muscle tissue

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 879-884

  Levenberg, Shulamit ^a,b   Rouwkema, Jeroen ^d   Macdonald, Mara ^b   Garfein, Evan S ^e   Kohane, Daniel S ^f   Darland, Diane C ^g   Marini, Robert ^c   Van Blitterswijk, Clemens A ^d   Mulligan, Richard C ^h   D'Amore, Patricia A ^g   Langer, Robert ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^e BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^h BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); MUSCLE; PLANTS (BOTANY);

EMBRYONIC FIBROBLASTS; ENDOTHELIAL VESSELS; TISSUE GROWTH;

TISSUE;

ENDOTHELIAL CELL GROWTH FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMPLANTATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; MUSCLE TISSUE; MYOBLAST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; VASCULARIZATION; ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL; BLOOD VESSEL; CELL CULTURE; COCULTURE; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO; FIBROBLAST; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSELS; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; MICE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOBLASTS, SKELETAL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 24944477341     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt1109     Document Type: Article

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