Degradation of electrospun nanofiber scaffold by short wave length ultraviolet radiation treatment and its potential applications in tissue engineering

Tissue Engineering - Part A.

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1321-1329

  Yixiang, Dong ^a   Yong, Thomas ^a   Liao, Susan ^a   Chan, Casey K ^a   Ramakrishna, S ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS; BIODEGRADABLE POLYMERS; CELL CULTURE; DEGRADATION; ENGINEERING; IRRADIATION; MESH GENERATION; NANOFIBERS; OPTICAL DESIGN; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PHOTODEGRADATION; POLYMER BLENDS; RADIATION EFFECTS; SCAFFOLDS; STERILIZATION (CLEANING); SULFATE MINERALS; TECHNOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

AVERAGE MOLECULAR; CAPROLACTONE; ELECTROSPUN; ELECTROSPUN NANOFIBER; HIGH POROSITY; HIGH SURFACE AREA; INDUCED DEGRADATION; L-LACTIDE; MICRO-PORES; POLYMERIC NANOFIBERS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; RADIATION TREATMENTS; SCAFFOLDS FOR TISSUE ENGINEERING; SHORT WAVES; SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS; SYNTHETIC POLYMERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D); TISSUE-ENGINEERING SCAFFOLDS; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION; UV IRRADIATIONS; UV RADIATION; UV-STERILIZATION; UV-TREATMENT;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

MOLECULAR SCAFFOLD; NANOFIBER; POLY(LEVO LACTIDE CO EPSILON CAPROLACTONE); POLYGLACTIN; POLYMER;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL MIGRATION; DEGRADATION KINETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; TENSILE STRENGTH; TISSUE ENGINEERING; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 48749120968     PISSN: 19373341     EISSN: 1937335X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2007.0395     Document Type: Article

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