Novel silk scaffolds for ligament tissue engineering applications

Key Engineering Materials

Volumn 326-328 I, Issue , 2006, Pages 727-730

  Toh, S L ^a   Teh, T K H ^a   Vallaya, S ^b   Goh, J C H ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b MAHASARAKHAM UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Knitted silk scaffold; Ligament reconstruction; Nanofibers; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIALS; LIGAMENTS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SCAFFOLDS; TENDONS;

KNITTED SILK SCAFFOLD; LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; NANOFIBERS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

SILK;

SCAFFOLDS; SILK; TISSUE;

EID: 33751546666     PISSN: 10139826     EISSN: 16629795     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.4028/0-87849-415-4.727     Document Type: Conference Paper

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