Bifurcating microchannels as a scaffold to induce separation of regenerating neurites

Journal of Neural Engineering

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Wieringa, P A ^a   Wiertz, R W F ^a   De Weerd, E ^b   Rutten, W L C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IN-VITRO; NEURITE GROWTH; NEURITES; SECONDARY CHANNELS;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); SCAFFOLDS; SEPARATION;

MICROCHANNELS;

TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; FASCICULATION; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURITE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; VIDEORECORDING; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELLS, CULTURED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURITES; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 76149117773     PISSN: 17412560     EISSN: 17412552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1741-2560/7/1/016001     Document Type: Article

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