A novel cylindrical biaxial computer-controlled bioreactor and biomechanical testing device for vascular tissue engineering

Tissue Engineering - Part A

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3331-3340

  Zaucha, Michael T ^a,b   Raykin, Julia ^b,c   Wan, William ^a,b   Gauvin, Robert ^d   Auger, Francois A ^d   Germain, Lucie ^d   Michaels, Thomas E ^e   Gleason Jr , Rudolph L ^a,b,c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Wallace H Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^d LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; BIOREACTORS; BLOOD; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESES; CELL CULTURE; COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER TESTING; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; GELS; LOAD TESTING; SELF ASSEMBLY; STATISTICAL TESTS; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

AXIAL LENGTH; BIOMECHANICAL TESTING; EXTRACELLULAR MATRICES; IN-CELL; INTERMITTENT MONITORING; LIVE TISSUE; LUMINAL FLOW; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; MECHANICAL LOADING; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MULTI-DIRECTIONAL; MULTIPHOTONS; NEW DEVICES; SYNERGISTIC EFFECT; TISSUE-ENGINEERED BLOOD VESSELS; TISSUE-ENGINEERED CONSTRUCTS; TRANSMURAL PRESSURE; VASCULAR TISSUE ENGINEERING; VESSEL GEOMETRY;

BLOOD VESSELS;

ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE ENGINEERING; VASCULAR TISSUE;

EID: 72649096640     PISSN: 19373341     EISSN: 1937335X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2008.0369     Document Type: Article

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