Neural tissue engineering and biohybridized microsystems for neurobiological investigation in vitro (part 1)

Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 201-240

  Kacy Cullen, D ^a   Wolf, John A ^a   Vernekar, Varadraj N ^b   Vukasinovic, Jelena ^c   la Placa, Michelle C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

3 D culture; Astrocytes; Axon; Biohybrid; Coculture; Extracellular matrix; Microsystems; Neural culture; Neural engineering; Neuroengineering; Neuron; Three dimensional; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CELL CULTURE; CELLS; MICROSYSTEMS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NEURONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

3-D CULTURES; ASTROCYTES; AXON; BIOHYBRID; COCULTURE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRICES; NEURAL CULTURES; NEURAL ENGINEERING; NEUROENGINEERING; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES;

CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS;

CELL COMPOSITION; CELL CULTURE; CELL DENSITY; CELL INTERACTION; CELL SURVIVAL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS TISSUE; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SYNAPSE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 79960073987     PISSN: 0278940X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/critrevbiomedeng.v39.i3.30     Document Type: Review

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