Tissue-transplant fusion and vascularization of myocardial microtissues and macrotissues implanted into chicken embryos and rats

Tissue Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2541-2553

  Kelm, Jens M ^a,b   Djonov, Valentin ^c   Hoerstrup, Simon P ^b   Guenter, Christina I ^d   Ittner, Lars M ^e   Greve, Frauke ^a   Hierlemann, Andreas ^a   Sanchez Bustamante, Carlota Diaz ^a   Perriard, Jean Claude ^a   Ehler, Elisabeth ^f   Fussenegger, Martin ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d Spital Waldshut GmbH   (Germany)

^e BALGRIST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^f KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; MOS DEVICES; SELF ASSEMBLY; TISSUE CULTURE; TRANSPLANTATION (SURGICAL);

HUMAN UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS (HUVEC); MACROTISSUES; METAL-OXIDE-SEMI-CONDUCTOR MICROCHIP; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE;

TISSUE;

AGAROSE; METAL OXIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY; CELL SHAPE; CELL STRUCTURE; CHICK EMBRYO; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; EMBRYO; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GRAVITY; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HOST CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERICARDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEMICONDUCTOR; TIME; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VASCULARIZATION; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL; BIOPROSTHESIS; CELL CULTURE; COCULTURE; HEART MUSCLE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; TRANSPLANTATION; WISTAR RAT; XENOGRAFT;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIOPROSTHESIS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHICK EMBRYO; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; MYOCARDIUM; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TRANSPLANTS;

EID: 33750615283     PISSN: 10763279     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.2006.12.2541     Document Type: Article

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