Micro-structured Materials and Mechanical Cues in 3D Collagen Gels

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 695, Issue , 2011, Pages 183-196

  Phillips, James B ^a   Brown, Robert ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cell alignment; Collagen; Hydrogel; Neurons; Plastic compression; Schwann cells; Three dimensional cell culture

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL; COLLAGEN; GELATINASE A; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; ENZYMOLOGY; FIBROBLAST; GEL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MECHANICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; COLLAGEN; FIBROBLASTS; GELS; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 2; MECHANICAL PHENOMENA; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 79952196817     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60761-984-0_12     Document Type: Chapter

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