Cervical tissue engineering using silk scaffolds and human cervical cells

Tissue Engineering - Part A

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2101-2112

  House, Michael ^a   Sanchez, Cristina C ^b   Rice, William L ^b   Socrate, Simona ^c   Kaplan, David L ^b  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY FLUIDS; CELL CULTURE; COLLAGEN; DYNAMICS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; SCAFFOLDS; SILK; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

BIOCHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS; CERVICAL CELLS; CERVICAL TISSUES; COLLAGEN DEPOSITION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRICES; FIBROUS CONNECTIVE TISSUE; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCANS; HUMAN TISSUES; MECHANICAL STIFFNESS; MODEL SYSTEM; PREMENOPAUSAL WOMEN; PRETERM BIRTH; SERUM CONCENTRATION; SILK SCAFFOLD; STATIC CULTURE; TISSUE CONSTRUCTS;

BIOMECHANICS;

TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; CELL CULTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MATERIALS TESTING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SILK; TISSUE ENGINEERING; UTERINE CERVIX;

ADULT; BIOREACTORS; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CERVIX UTERI; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MATERIALS TESTING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SILK; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 77953346274     PISSN: 19373341     EISSN: 1937335X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2009.0457     Document Type: Article

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