Fabrication of 3D hepatic tissues by additive photopatterning of cellular hydrogels

FASEB Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 790-801

  Tsang, Valerie Liu ^a   Chen, Alice A ^b   Cho, Lisa M ^a   Jadin, Kyle D ^a   Sah, Robert L ^a   DeLong, Solitaire ^d   West, Jennifer L ^d   Bhatia, Sangeeta N ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

Hepatic; Liver; Microscale; PEG; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

ARGINYLGLYCYLASPARTIC ACID; INTEGRIN; MACROGOL; MATRIGEL; VERY LATE ACTIVATION ANTIGEN 5;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL ENCAPSULATION; CELL SURVIVAL; COCULTURE; CONTINUOUS FLOW REACTOR; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; HYDROGEL; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIVER; LIVER CELL CULTURE; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER TISSUE CULTURE; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE CULTURE;

ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION; CELLS, CULTURED; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HEPATOCYTES; HYDROGELS; INTEGRINS; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33847387695     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.06-7117com     Document Type: Article

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