Morphology of fibroblasts grown on substrates formed by dielectrophoretically aligned carbon nanotubes

Cytotechnology

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 9-17

  Yuen, Felix L Y ^a   Zak, Gene ^a   Waldman, Stephen D ^a,b   Docoslis, Aristides ^a,b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b KINGSTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

AC electrokinetics; Carbon nanotube alignment; Dielectrophoresis; Microelectrodes; Patterned substrate; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ANCHORAGE; CELL GROWTH; CELL SHAPE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHORESIS; FIBROBLAST; MICROSCOPE IMAGE; NONHUMAN; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BOVINAE;

EID: 37549048673     PISSN: 09209069     EISSN: 15730778     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10616-007-9113-0     Document Type: Article

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