Mechanical properties of tissue-engineered vascular constructs produced using arterial or venous cells

Tissue Engineering - Part A

Volumn 17, Issue 15-16, 2011, Pages 2049-2059

  Gauvin, Robert ^a   Guillemette, Maxime ^a   Galbraith, Todd ^a   Bourget, Jean Michel ^a   Larouche, Danielle ^a   Marcoux, Hugo ^a   Aubé, David ^a   Hayward, Cindy ^a   Auger, François A ^a   Germain, Lucie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; CYCLIC LOADS; CYTOLOGY; FIBROBLASTS; MATERIALS TESTING APPARATUS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MUSCLE; RATING; STRESS ANALYSIS; TENSILE STRENGTH; TENSILE TESTING; TISSUE CULTURE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ARTERIAL GRAFTS; BLOOD VESSEL SUBSTITUTES; CELL SOURCES; CYCLIC LOADINGS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRICES; HIGHER LOADS; HUMAN UMBILICAL CORD; HYSTERESIS ANALYSIS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE STAINING; SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SYNTHETIC GRAFTS; TISSUE CULTURE PLATES; TISSUE ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; TISSUE PROPERTIES; TISSUE SHEETS; UMBILICAL CORDS; UNIAXIAL TENSILE TESTING; VASCULAR CONSTRUCT; VISCOELASTIC BEHAVIORS;

BIOMECHANICS;

TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ARTERY; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; ELASTICITY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; MATERIALS TESTING; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TISSUE ENGINEERING; VEIN; VISCOSITY;

ARTERIES; BIOMECHANICS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; ELASTICITY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMANS; MATERIALS TESTING; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; VEINS; VISCOSITY;

EID: 79960760563     PISSN: 19373341     EISSN: 1937335X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2010.0613     Document Type: Article

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