Tailoring the porosity and pore size of electrospun synthetic human elastin scaffolds for dermal tissue engineering

Biomaterials

Volumn 32, Issue 28, 2011, Pages 6729-6736

  Rnjak Kovacina, Jelena ^a,b   Wise, Steven G ^a   Li, Zhe ^c   Maitz, Peter K M ^c   Young, Cara J ^d   Wang, Yiwei ^c   Weiss, Anthony S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Tufts University   (United States)

^c Department of Geriatric Medicine   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dermal substitute; Electrospinning; Pore size; Porosity; Synthetic human elastin; Tropoelastin

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; BIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES; CELL MIGRATION; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; DERMAL FIBROBLASTS; DERMAL SUBSTITUTES; DERMAL TISSUES; ELECTROSPUNS; FIBER DIAMETERS; HIGH POROSITY; HUMAN ELASTIN; IN-VITRO; POROSITY AND PORE SIZE; SCAFFOLD POROSITY; TROPOELASTIN; YOUNG'S MODULUS;

CELL CULTURE; ELECTROSPINNING; FIBROBLASTS; FLOW RATE; GLYCOPROTEINS; MAMMALS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PORE SIZE; SOIL MECHANICS; TENSILE STRENGTH; TISSUE;

SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

ELASTIN; TROPOELASTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; BIOMECHANICS; CELL ADHESION; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SPREADING; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMIS; ELECTROSPINNING; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; FLOW RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMPLANTATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TENSILE STRENGTH; TISSUE ENGINEERING; YOUNG MODULUS;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CELL PROLIFERATION; DERMIS; ELASTIN; ELECTROCHEMICAL TECHNIQUES; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; IMPLANTS, EXPERIMENTAL; MALE; MATERIALS TESTING; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; POROSITY; TENSILE STRENGTH; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 79960565027     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: 18785905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2011.05.065     Document Type: Article

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