Development of a co-culture system for tissue engineered vascular grafts

Bio-Medical Materials and Engineering

Volumn 18, Issue 4-5, 2008, Pages 291-294

  Crouchley, Claire M ^a   Barron, Valerie ^a   Punchard, Marie ^a   O'Cearbhaill, Eoin ^a   Smith, Terry ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; COCULTURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CORONARY ARTERY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MECHANICAL STRESS; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATOR; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

BLOOD VESSELS; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 57649198087     PISSN: 09592989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/BME-2008-0540     Document Type: Conference Paper

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