Alignment of astrocytes increases neuronal growth in three-dimensional collagen gels and is maintained following plastic compression to form a spinal cord repair conduit

Tissue Engineering - Part A

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3173-3184

  East, Emma ^a   De Oliveira, Daniela Blum ^a   Golding, Jon P ^a   Phillips, James B ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; BIOMATERIALS; CELL CULTURE; COLLAGEN; DOSIMETRY; MAMMALS; REPAIR; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

CELL PROCESS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEMS; COLLAGEN GELS; CONTROL AREA; CULTURE SYSTEMS; GLIAL SCAR; IMPLANTABLE DEVICES; LESION SITE; MAMMALIAN CELLS; NEURITE OUTGROWTH; NEURITES; NEURONAL GROWTH; NON-MAMMALIAN VERTEBRATES; NOVEL METHODS; PLASTIC COMPRESSION; POSSIBLE FUTURES; POTENTIAL UTILITY; SPINAL CORDS; THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTION;

NEURONS;

MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

COLLAGEN; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL CULTURE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NERVE REGENERATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; CELLS, CULTURED; COLLAGEN; NERVE REGENERATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 77957682103     PISSN: 19373341     EISSN: 1937335X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2010.0017     Document Type: Article

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