Assessment of tissue scaffold degradation using electrochemical techniques

Acta Biomaterialia

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 686-696

  Willows, Alison ^a   Fan, Qiang ^b   Ismail, Fanya ^b   Vaz, Claudia M ^c   Tomlins, Paul E ^c   Mikhalovska, Lyuba I ^a   Mikhalovsky, Sergey V ^a   James, Stuart L ^a   Vadgama, Pankaj ^b   Wasikiewicz, Jaroslaw ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amperometry; Degradation; Electrochemistry; Porous structure; Tissue scaffold

Indexed keywords

ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODES; SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY); TISSUE;

AMPEROMETRY; DERMAL EQUIVALENT; ELECTROCHEMICAL TECHNIQUES; EQUIVALENT MATRICES; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCANS; POROUS STRUCTURES; SCAFFOLD DEGRADATION; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; WORKING ELECTRODE;

POROSITY;

BIOMATERIAL; COLLAGEN; ENZYME; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN; POTASSIUM FERRICYANIDE;

AMPEROMETRY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRODE; ENZYMATIC DEGRADATION; GAMMA RADIATION; MEASUREMENT; MOLECULAR PROBE; MONITORING; OXIDATION; POTENTIOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STORAGE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

EID: 41549130260     PISSN: 17427061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2007.10.009     Document Type: Article

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