Perfusion and characterization of an endothelial cell-seeded modular tissue engineered construct formed in a microfluidic remodeling chamber

Biomaterials

Volumn 31, Issue 32, 2010, Pages 8254-8261

  Khan, Omar F ^a,b   Sefton, Michael V ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Activation; Collagen; Endothelial cells; Perfusion; Tissue engineering; VE cadherin, KLF2, ICAM 1 and VCAM 1

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION; ADHERENS JUNCTIONS; DISTURBED FLOW; FLOW CHANNELS; FLOWTHROUGH; INTERNAL VOIDS; LAMINAR SHEAR STRESS; PERFUSION; POINTS OF CONTACT; STATIC CONTROL; SUBMILLIMETERS; TISSUE ENGINEERED CONSTRUCTS; VE-CADHERIN; VOID SPACE;

COLLAGEN; MICROFLUIDICS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SHEAR STRESS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ENDOTHELIAL CELLS;

BROXURIDINE; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR 2; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CADHERIN;

ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL FUSION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DOWN REGULATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FLOW MEASUREMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MICROFLUIDICS; PERFUSION PRESSURE; PRESSURE CHAMBER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR STRESS; TISSUE ENGINEERING; UPREGULATION;

ANTIGENS, CD; CADHERINS; CELLS, CULTURED; COLLAGEN; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE-1; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MICROFLUIDICS; PERFUSION; TISSUE ENGINEERING; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE-1;

EID: 77956191935     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2010.07.041     Document Type: Article

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