Porous chitosan microcarriers for large scale cultivation of cells for tissue engineering: Fabrication and evaluation

Tsinghua Science and Technology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 427-432

  Lu, Guangyuan ^a   Zhu, Lin ^a   Kong, Lijun ^a   Zhang, Ling ^a   Gong, Yandao ^a   Zhao, Nanming ^a   Zhang, Xiufang ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chitosan; Chondrocyte; Porous microcarrier; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

BIOPOLYMERS; MICROPOROSITY; MICROPOROUS MATERIALS; MICROSTRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CHITOSAN; CHONDROCYTE; POROUS MICROCARRIER; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

TISSUE CULTURE;

EID: 33749846939     PISSN: 10070214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1007-0214(06)70212-7     Document Type: Article

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