Design of a novel engineered muscle construct using muscle derived fibroblastic cells seeded onto braided collagen threads

Proceedings of the IEEE Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference, NEBEC

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Makridakis, Jennifer L ^a   Pins, George D ^a   Dominko, Tanja ^b,c   Page, Ray L ^b,c  

^a Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^b Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^c CellThera Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; CYTOLOGY; DEFECTS; FIBROBLASTS; MICROCHANNELS; MOLDS; MUSCLE; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE; SILICONES; TISSUE REGENERATION;

CARBODIIMIDE HYDROCHLORIDES; CELL ATTACHMENTS; COLLAGEN SCAFFOLDS; CULTURE SYSTEMS; FIBROBLASTIC CELLS; MUSCLE REGENERATION; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE PDMS; TYPE I COLLAGEN;

SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

EID: 70349112349     PISSN: 1071121X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NEBC.2009.4967673     Document Type: Conference Paper

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