Ossifying bone marrow explant culture as a three-dimensional mechanoresponsive in vitro model of osteogenesis

Tissue Engineering - Part A

Volumn 17, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 417-428

  Gurkan, Umut Atakan ^a   Krueger, Adam ^a   Akkus, Ozan ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE; CELL CULTURE; DYNAMICS; ENZYME INHIBITION; INSULIN; LOADING; MONOLAYERS; PEPTIDES; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; PHYSIOLOGY; SCAFFOLDS; SELF ASSEMBLY;

3D MODELS; BASAL CONDITIONS; BONE FORMATION; BONE MARROW; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN-2; BONE REGENERATION; COMPLEX PROCESSES; COMPRESSIVE LOADING; EXTRACELLULAR MATRICES; GROWTH FACTOR; IN-VITRO; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR-1; MARROW TISSUE; MECHANICAL LOADING; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MONOLAYER CELL CULTURE; MULTIPLE CELL TYPES; NATURAL BONE; OSTEOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS; PRODUCTION LEVEL; RAT BONE MARROW; STATIC CONDITIONS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D); TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTORS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

RATTUS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ENLARGEMENT; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOLOGY; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; OSTEOBLAST; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT;

ANIMALS; BONE MARROW CELLS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ENLARGEMENT; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; MALE; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; OSTEOBLASTS; OSTEOGENESIS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 79551528372     PISSN: 19373341     EISSN: 1937335X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2010.0193     Document Type: Article

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