Design and characterization of a modified T-flask bioreactor for continuous monitoring of engineered tissue stiffness

Biotechnology Progress

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 857-864

  Lasher, Richard A ^a   Wolchok, Jeffrey C ^a   Parikh, Monir K ^a   Kennedy, James P ^a   Hitchcock, Robert W ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioreactor; Fibroblast; Tissue engineering; Tissue stiffness

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS MONITORING; CYCLIC LOADINGS; ENGINEERED TISSUES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXPERIMENTAL GROUPS; EXTERNAL SENSORS; FORCE SENSOR; FORCE-DISPLACEMENT; FUNCTIONAL TISSUE; IN-VITRO; LABVIEW; MECHANICAL ACTUATIONS; MECHANICAL ENVIRONMENT; MECHANICAL STIMULUS; OFF-THE-SHELF COMPONENTS; POLYURETHANE SCAFFOLDS; REPRODUCIBILITIES; STEPPER MOTOR; TISSUE CONSTRUCTS; TISSUE DEVELOPMENT; TISSUE SAMPLES; TISSUE STIFFNESS;

BIOCONVERSION; BIOREACTORS; CELL CULTURE; EXPERIMENTS; FIBROBLASTS; SENSORS; STIFFNESS; TISSUE; TISSUE CULTURE;

TISSUE ENGINEERING;

TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; CYTOLOGY; ELASTICITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; DEVICES; PROCEDURES; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

BIOREACTORS; ELASTICITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 77954755638     PISSN: 87567938     EISSN: 15206033     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/btpr.380     Document Type: Article

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