Monitoring collagen transcription by vascular smooth muscle cells in fibrin-based tissue constructs

Tissue Engineering - Part C: Methods

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 459-467

  Weinbaum, Justin S ^a   Qi, Jie ^b   Tranquillo, Robert T ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b Flexcell International Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOACTIVITY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESES; CELLS; HISTOLOGY; MONITORING; MUSCLE; PEPTIDES; TRANSCRIPTION;

COLLAGEN CONTENT; COLLAGEN I; CONTROL-CELL; ENGINEERED TISSUES; GROWTH FACTOR; IN-VITRO; PROTEIN LEVEL; TISSUE CONSTRUCTS; TISSUE DESTRUCTION; TISSUE GROWTH; TRANSCRIPTIONAL LEVELS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTORS; TRANSGENE; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS;

COLLAGEN;

BIOMATERIAL; COLLAGEN; FIBRIN; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; COLLAGEN; DNA PRIMERS; FIBRIN; FLUORESCENCE; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 77952935265     PISSN: 19373384     EISSN: 19373392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tec.2009.0112     Document Type: Article

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