A home away from home: Challenges and opportunities in engineering in vitro muscle satellite cell niches

Differentiation

Volumn 78, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 185-194

  Cosgrove, Benjamin D ^a   Sacco, Alessandra ^a   Gilbert, Penney M ^a   Blau, Helen M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomaterials; Hydrogel; Matrix stiffness; Niche microenvironment; Self renewal; Skeletal muscle stem cell; Tethered ligand

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL;

ADULT STEM CELL; AGING; ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; IN VITRO STUDY; MICROENVIRONMENT; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE DISEASE; MUSCLE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SKELETAL MUSCLE SATELLITE CELL; STEM CELL; TISSUE CULTURE;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; SATELLITE CELLS, SKELETAL MUSCLE; STEM CELLS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 69949131245     PISSN: 03014681     EISSN: 14320436     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diff.2009.08.004     Document Type: Article

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