The promotion of microvasculature formation in poly(ethylene glycol) diacrylate hydrogels by an immobilized VEGF-mimetic peptide

Biomaterials

Volumn 32, Issue 25, 2011, Pages 5782-5789

  Leslie Barbick, Julia E ^a   Saik, Jennifer E ^a   Gould, Daniel J ^a,b   Dickinson, Mary E ^b   West, Jennifer L ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Peptide; Poly(ethylene glycol); Vascularization

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; BRANCH POINTS; CELL-CELL CONTACT; CELLULAR ENVIRONMENT; COVALENTLY BOUND; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; LACUNARITY; MICRO-VASCULATURE; PEG HYDROGEL; PEGYLATION; POLY(ETHYLENE GLYCOL) HYDROGEL; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL DIACRYLATE; SPACE FILLING; TISSUE ENGINEERED CONSTRUCTS; VASCULARIZATION;

AMINO ACIDS; BIOMIMETICS; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; FRACTAL DIMENSION; PEPTIDES; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES; TISSUE;

HYDROGELS;

ACETYLLYSYLLEUCYLTHREONYLTRYPTOPHANYLGLUTAMINYLGLUTAMYLLEUCYLTYROSYLGLUTAMINYLLEUCYLLYSYLTYROSYLLYSYLGLYCYLISOLEUCINAMIDE; ANGIOGENIC FACTOR; ARGINYLGLYCYLASPARTYLSERINE; COLLAGENASE; MACROGOL; PEPTIDOMIMETIC AGENT; POLY(ETHYLENE GLYCOL)DIACRYLATE; POLY(ETHYLENE GLYCOL)SUCCINIMIDYL ESTER; POLYMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMIMETICS; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; COVALENT BOND; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG SOLUBILITY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYDROGEL; MICROVASCULARIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CORNEA; HUMANS; HYDROGELS; MICE; MICROVESSELS; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 79957900892     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: 18785905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2011.04.060     Document Type: Article

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