A bilayered elastomeric scaffold for tissue engineering of small diameter vascular grafts

Acta Biomaterialia

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 110-122

  Soletti, Lorenzo ^a,b,c   Hong, Yi ^b,c   Guan, Jianjun ^b,c   Stankus, John J ^a,c   El Kurdi, Mohammed S ^a,b,c   Wagner, William R ^a,b,c   Vorp, David A ^a,b,c  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell seeding; Poly(ester urethane)urea; Polymer processing; Tubular scaffold; Vascular tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; CELL ENGINEERING; CYTOLOGY; DYNAMICS; ESTERS; SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY); TISSUE; UREA;

BILAYERED; CELL INTEGRATION; CELL SEEDING; ELASTOMERIC SCAFFOLDS; POLY(ESTER URETHANE)UREA; POLYMER PROCESSING; SCAFFOLDS FOR TISSUE ENGINEERING; SMALL DIAMETER VASCULAR GRAFTS; TUBULAR SCAFFOLD; VASCULAR TISSUE ENGINEERING;

STEM CELLS;

ELASTOMER; POLYMER; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ADULT STEM CELL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADABILITY; BIOMECHANICS; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; CELL DENSITY; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBER; MECHANICAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE STRUCTURE; YOUNG MODULUS;

EID: 70449720966     PISSN: 17427061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2009.06.026     Document Type: Article

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