Electrospun cellular microenvironments: Understanding controlled release and scaffold structure

Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 209-220

  Szentivanyi, Andreas ^a   Chakradeo, Tanmay ^a   Zernetsch, Holger ^a   Glasmacher, Birgit ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell ingrowth; Cell proliferation; Electrospinning; Fiber diameter; Pore size; Porosity; Protein delivery; Release kinetics; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

CELL FATES; CELL INGROWTH; COAXIAL ELECTROSPINNING; COMPLEX TISSUES; CONTROLLED RELEASE; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROSPINNING TECHNIQUES; ELECTROSPUNS; FIBER DIAMETER; FIBER DIAMETERS; FIBER TYPES; MICROENVIRONMENTS; MULTICOMPONENTS; MULTIFIBERS; POLYMER PROPERTIES; PROTEIN DELIVERY; RELEASE KINETICS; SCAFFOLD STRUCTURES; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; TISSUE DEVELOPMENT;

CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED DRUG DELIVERY; ELECTROSPINNING; EMULSIFICATION; PORE SIZE; TISSUE;

SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

ALBUMIN; COLLAGEN; COPOLYMER; DICLOFENAC; LACTIC ACID EPSILON CAPROLACTONE COPOLYMER; NANOPARTICLE; PLASMID DNA; POLYCAPROLACTONE; POLYGLACTIN; POLYGLYCOLIC ACID; POLYMER; RHODAMINE B; TISSUE SCAFFOLD; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIODEGRADATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; BLEND ELECTROSPINNING; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SIZE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COAXIAL ELECTROSPINNING; CONTROLLED DRUG RELEASE; DRUG RELEASE; ELECTROSPINNING; EMULSION ELECTROSPINNING; FIBER; GEOMETRY; IMMOBILIZATION; MICROENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; NONVIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; PARTICLE SIZE; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURFACE FUNCTIONALIZATION; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE STRUCTURE;

CELL PROLIFERATION; DELAYED-ACTION PREPARATIONS; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; EMULSIONS; HUMANS; NANOFIBERS; POLYMERS; POROSITY; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 79957673714     PISSN: 0169409X     EISSN: 0169409X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.addr.2010.12.002     Document Type: Review

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