Biodegradable polymer scaffold for tissue engineering

Trends in Biomaterials and Artificial Organs

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 20-29

  Patel, Hetal ^a   Bonde, Minal ^a   Srinivasan, Ganga ^a  

^a UKA TARSADIA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADABLE POLYMER SCAFFOLDS; BIOMIMICKING; ENGINEERED ENVIRONMENTS; GROWTH FACTOR; KEY MATERIALS; PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; PROCESSING TECHNOLOGIES; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; RESEARCH AREAS; SYNTHETIC EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; TISSUE REGENERATION;

BIODEGRADABLE POLYMERS; GROWTH (MATERIALS); HISTOLOGY; TISSUE;

SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

EID: 80051770346     PISSN: 09711198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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