Fabrication of highly porous tissue-engineering scaffolds using selective spherical porogens

Bio-Medical Materials and Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 107-118

  Johnson, Taylor ^a   Bahrampourian, Rahimeh ^a   Patel, Alpesh ^a   Mequanint, Kibret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

particle size; poly(vinyl pyrrolidone); porogen; porosity; Scaffolds

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION KINETICS; CELL ATTACHMENTS; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; CONTROL-CELL; DISPERSING AGENT; EXTRACELLULAR MATRICES; FABRICATION METHOD; HUMAN CORONARY ARTERIES; INTERCONNECTED PORES; LEACHING METHODS; OPEN POROSITY; PARTICULATE LEACHING; POLY(VINYL PYRROLIDONE); PORE INTERCONNECTIVITY; POROGEN; POROGENS; POROUS SCAFFOLD; POROUS TISSUE; PREPARATION METHOD; PRESSURE DIFFERENTIAL; SCAFFOLD FABRICATION METHODS; SCAFFOLD POROSITY; SOLVENT CASTING; STRAIGHT-FORWARD METHOD; SUPPORT ATTACHMENTS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ARCHITECTURE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL POROUS SCAFFOLDS; TREATMENT MODALITY;

ADSORPTION; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; CELL CULTURE; DISPERSIONS; FABRICATION; LEACHING; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; POROSITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

SCAFFOLDS;

BIOMATERIAL; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL; POVIDONE; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; CYTOLOGY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POROSITY; SYNTHESIS; TISSUE ENGINEERING; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CORONARY VESSELS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMANS; MATERIALS TESTING; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL; POROSITY; POVIDONE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 77954702289     PISSN: 09592989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/BME-2010-0621     Document Type: Article

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