Recreating the microenvironment of the native cornea for tissue engineering applications

Tissue Engineering - Part A

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1463-1472

  Wray, Lindsay S ^a   Orwin, Elizabeth J ^a  

^a HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDES; CELL CULTURE; CELL MEMBRANES; COLLAGEN; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FIBERS; MORPHOLOGY; OXIDE MINERALS; QUARTZ; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ALIGNED FIBERS; BACKSCATTERED LIGHT; CELL MORPHOLOGY; CELLULAR GROWTH; CELLULAR PHENOTYPES; COLLAGEN TYPE I; CORNEAL FIBROBLASTS; CORNEAL TISSUES; CROSSLINKED; ELECTROSPUN FIBERS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRICES; GLUTARALDEHYDE; INTRACELLULAR PROTEINS; MICROENVIRONMENT; OPTIMAL METHODS; PLATE DEVICES; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUARTZ GLASS SUBSTRATES; SCAFFOLD MATERIALS; SCAFFOLDING MATERIALS; TISSUE ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS;

ELECTROSPINNING;

CELL PROTEIN; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; GLUTARALDEHYDE;

ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 67650699536     PISSN: 19373341     EISSN: 1937335X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2008.0239     Document Type: Article

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