Silicon scaffolds promoting three-dimensional neuronal web of cytoplasmic processes

Tissue Engineering - Part C: Methods

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 497-502

  Papadopoulou, Evie L ^a   Samara, Athina ^b   Barberoglou, Marios ^a,c   Manousaki, Aleka ^a   Pagakis, Stamatis N ^b   Anastasiadou, Ema ^b   Fotakis, Costas ^a,c   Stratakis, Emmanuel ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^b BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOLOGY; NEURONS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICON; SILICON WAFERS;

CYTOPLASMIC PROCESS; FEMTOSECOND LASER IRRADIATION; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; MULTI-FACETED STUDY; NEURITES; SI SUBSTRATES; SI SURFACES; SI WAFER; SILICON SUBSTRATES; SYNTHETIC EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX;

SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOPLASM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

CYTOPLASM; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURONS; SILICON;

EID: 77952930317     PISSN: 19373384     EISSN: 19373392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tec.2009.0216     Document Type: Article

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