Dynamic tensile loading improves the functional properties of mesenchymal stem cell-laden nanofiber-based fibrocartilage

Tissue Engineering - Part A

Volumn 17, Issue 9-10, 2011, Pages 1445-1455

  Baker, Brendon M ^a,b   Shah, Roshan P ^a   Huang, Alice H ^a,b   Mauck, Robert L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEARINGS (MACHINE PARTS); BEARINGS (STRUCTURAL); BIOMECHANICS; CELL CULTURE; COLLAGEN; DYNAMIC LOADS; DYNAMICS; FLOWCHARTING; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOLOGY; LOADING; NANOFIBERS; SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY); STEM CELLS; TENSILE STRESS; TISSUE;

COLLAGEN DEPOSITION; COLLAGEN FIBER; CRITICAL LOAD; CYCLIC TENSILE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRICES; FIBROCARTILAGE; FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES; IN-VITRO; LOAD-BEARING TISSUES; MECHANICAL ENVIRONMENT; MECHANICAL FORCE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; STRUCTURAL FEATURE; TENSILE LOADING; TENSILE LOADS; TENSILE MODULI; TISSUE ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS;

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

NANOFIBER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROCARTILAGE; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; METABOLISM; TENSILE STRENGTH; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELLS, CULTURED; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROCARTILAGE; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS; NANOFIBERS; TENSILE STRENGTH; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 79954990000     PISSN: 19373341     EISSN: 1937335X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2010.0535     Document Type: Article

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