A protein-permeable scaffold of a collagen vitrigel membrane useful for reconstructing crosstalk models between two different cell types

Cells Tissues Organs

Volumn 185, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 237-241

  Takezawa, Toshiaki ^a   Nitani, Aya ^a,c   Shimo Oka, Tadashi ^a,c   Takayama, Yoshiharu ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LIVESTOCK AND GRASSLAND SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c Asahi Techno Glass Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

Collagen; Epithelial mesenchymal transition; Paracrine factors; Protein permeability; Scaffold

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN GEL; GLUCOSE; PLASMA PROTEIN; SCAFFOLD PROTEIN;

CELL CULTURE; CELL STRAIN HT29; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TYPE; COCULTURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; FIBROBLAST; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HISTOLOGY; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MESENCHYME CELL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

BLOOD PROTEINS; CELL COUNT; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; COLLAGEN TYPE I; CULTURE MEDIA; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FIBROBLASTS; FLUORESCEINS; FLUORESCENT DYES; GELS; HT29 CELLS; HUMANS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MESODERM; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; SKIN; TIME FACTORS; UMBILICAL VEINS;

EID: 34250732186     PISSN: 14226405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000101325     Document Type: Conference Paper

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