Thin films of oriented collagen fibrils for cell motility studies

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research - Part B Applied Biomaterials

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 438-443

  Amyot, Franck ^a   Small, Alex ^a   Boukari, Hacène ^a   Sackett, Dan ^a   Elliott, John ^b   McDaniel, Dennis ^b   Plant, Anne ^b   Gandjbakhche, Amir ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assay; Endothelial cell motility; Morphology; Thin collagen film

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; CELLS; COLLAGEN; DEWATERING; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPERIMENTS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; THICK FILMS; THIN FILMS; TISSUE;

CELL BIOLOGY; CELL MORPHOLOGY; CELL MOTILITY; CELL ORIENTATION; COLLAGEN FIBRILS; COLLAGEN FILMS; DEGREE OF ORIENTATION; DRYING STEP; EXTRA-CELLULAR MATRIX (ECM); FIBRIL ORIENTATIONS; FOURIER; IN-VIVO; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALLING; MICROSCOPY IMAGING; OPTICAL (PET) (OPET); POLARIZED CELLS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CELLS;

FILM PREPARATION;

COLLAGEN FIBRIL; COLLAGEN TYPE 1;

ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOLOGY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FILM; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MICROSCOPY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL POLARITY; CELLS, CULTURED; COLLAGEN TYPE I; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 47949085811     PISSN: 15524973     EISSN: 15524981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jbm.b.31039     Document Type: Article

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