Anisotropic porous biodegradable scaffolds for musculoskeletal tissue engineering

Materials

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1674-1696

  de Mulder, Eric L W ^a   Buma, Pieter ^a   Hannink, Gerjon ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Musculoskeletal; Scaffolds; Solid free form fabrication; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADABLE SCAFFOLD; CONVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES; DIRECT DIFFERENTIATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX COMPONENTS; FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP; MUSCULOSKELETAL; SOLID FREE-FORM FABRICATION; TISSUE ENGINEERED CONSTRUCTS;

ANISOTROPY; BIOMECHANICS; HISTOLOGY; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; SCAFFOLDS; SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY); TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE REGENERATION;

TISSUE;

EID: 80051582570     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma2041674     Document Type: Article

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