Transplantation of a tissue-engineered human vascularized cardiac muscle

Tissue Engineering - Part A

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 115-125

  Lesman, Ayelet ^a   Habib, Manhal ^a   Caspi, Oren ^a   Gepstein, Amira ^a   Arbel, Gil ^a   Levenberg, Shulamit ^a   Gepstein, Lior ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESES; BLOOD VESSELS; CELL CULTURE; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; MUSCLE; SCAFFOLDS; SELF ASSEMBLY; STEM CELLS;

BIODEGRADABLE POROUS SCAFFOLDS; CARDIAC MUSCLES; CARDIAC TISSUES; CARDIOMYOCYTES; DONOR CELLS; EMBRYONIC FIBROBLASTS; EX-VIVO; FLUORESCENT MICROSPHERES; FUNCTIONAL INTEGRATION; HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; HUMAN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMAN UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMAN VESSELS; IMMUNOSTAINING; IN-VIVO; RAT HEART; SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTINS; TISSUE CONSTRUCTS; TISSUE PERFUSION; VASCULARIZATION; VASCULATURE;

HEART;

RATTUS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADABLE IMPLANT; CELL LINE; COCULTURE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FIBROBLAST; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ABSORBABLE IMPLANTS; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; CORONARY VESSELS; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MYOCARDIUM; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 77049110164     PISSN: 19373341     EISSN: 1937335X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2009.0130     Document Type: Article

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