Aligned and random nanofibrous substrate for the in vitro culture of Schwann cells for neural tissue engineering

Acta Biomaterialia

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2560-2569

  Gupta, Deepika ^a   Venugopal, J ^a   Prabhakaran, Molamma P ^a   Dev, V R Giri ^c   Low, Sharon ^b   Choon, Aw Tar ^b   Ramakrishna, S ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b StemLife Sdn Bhd   (Malaysia)

^c ANNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Electrospinning; Gelatin; PCL; Random and aligned nanofibers; Schwann cells

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIOMECHANICS; BLENDING; CELL ENGINEERING; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; HYDROPHILICITY; NANOFIBERS; NEURONS; POLYCAPROLACTONE; SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY); SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SUBSTRATES; TISSUE; TISSUE REGENERATION;

ALIGNED NANOFIBERS; GELATIN; IN-VITRO; NANOFIBROUS SCAFFOLDS; NERVE TISSUE ENGINEERING; NEURAL TISSUE ENGINEERING; PCL; RANDOM AND ALIGNED NANOFIBER; SCHWANN CELLS; VITRO CULTURE;

ELECTROSPINNING;

GELATIN; MOLECULAR SCAFFOLD; POLYCAPROLACTONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CELL ASSAY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYDROPHILICITY; IN VITRO STUDY; NANOFABRICATION; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVOUS TISSUE; NONHUMAN; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SCHWANN CELL; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 69049088741     PISSN: 17427061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2009.01.039     Document Type: Article

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