Contractile skeletal muscle tissue-engineered on an acellular scaffold: Discussion

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 603-604

  Shanahan, Robert K ^b   Hedrick, Marc H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; MECHANICAL STRESS; MOUSE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MYOBLAST; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 4444334420     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000101065.05945.B1     Document Type: Note

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