Fibrocartilage tissue engineering: The role of the stress environment on cell morphology and matrix expression

Tissue Engineering - Part A

Volumn 17, Issue 7-8, 2011, Pages 1039-1053

  Thomopoulos, Stavros ^a   Das, Rosalina ^a   Birman, Victor ^b   Smith, Lester ^a   Ku, Katherine ^a   Elson, Elliott L ^c   Pryse, Kenneth M ^c   Marquez, Juan Pablo ^d   Genin, Guy M ^d  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYDRAULICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; LOADING; MORPHOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TENSILE STRESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

3D CULTURE; 3D STRESS; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL ALIGNMENT; CELL MORPHOLOGY; CELL ORIENTATION; CHONDROGENIC; COMPRESSIVE AND TENSILE STRESS; CYCLIC LOADING CONDITIONS; CYCLIC STRESS; ENGINEERED TISSUES; ENVIRONMENT INFLUENCE; FIBROCARTILAGE; HYDROSTATIC STRESS FIELDS; HYDROSTATIC TENSION; IN-VITRO; MATRIX EXPRESSION; MECHANICAL LOADING; MECHANICAL MODELING; MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS; MRNA EXPRESSION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; STATIC LOADING; STRESS FIELD; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D); TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTORS; UP-REGULATION;

STRESS ANALYSIS;

COLLAGEN TYPE 2;

ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; FIBROCARTILAGE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MECHANICAL STRESS; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; STROMA CELL; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

COLLAGEN TYPE II; FIBROCARTILAGE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; STROMAL CELLS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 79952982691     PISSN: 19373341     EISSN: 1937335X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2009.0499     Document Type: Article

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