Constraint stress, microstructural characteristics, and enhanced mechanical properties of a special fibroblast-embedded collagen construct

Artificial Organs

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 870-877

  Feng, Zhonggang ^a   Ishibashi, Makiko ^a   Nomura, Yasutomo ^a   Kitajima, Tastuo ^a   Nakamura, Takao ^a  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Collagen structure; Constraint stress; Fibril orientation; Mechanical properties; Microstructure

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIALS; BIOMECHANICS; BLOOD VESSELS; CELL CULTURE; CELL ENGINEERING; COLLAGEN; FIBROBLASTS; TENSILE TESTING; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

COLLAGEN CONSTRUCTS; COLLAGEN GELS; COLLAGEN STRUCTURE; CONSTRAINT STRESS; FIBRIL ORIENTATIONS; MECHANICAL; MICROSTRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; TISSUES ENGINEERINGS; TYPE I COLLAGEN; TYPE-I COLLAGEN;

MICROSTRUCTURE;

BIOMATERIAL; COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN GEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBROBLAST; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MECHANICAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; TENDON GRAFT; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33750289922     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: 15251594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1594.2006.00314.x     Document Type: Article

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