Development and progress of engineering of skeletal muscle tissue

Tissue Engineering - Part B: Reviews

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 319-331

  Liao, Hua ^a   Zhou, Guang Qian ^b,c  

^a SOUTHERN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRACTILE BEHAVIOR; MUSCLE TISSUES; SKELETAL MUSCLE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ENVIRONMENT;

TISSUE ENGINEERING;

MUSCLE;

MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TISSUE; MYOBLAST; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PATENTS AS TOPIC; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 69949116041     PISSN: 19373368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.teb.2009.0092     Document Type: Review

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