Microfluidic bioreactors for cell culturing: A review

Micro and Nanosystems

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 137-160

  Pasirayi, Godfrey ^a   Auger, Vincent ^a   Scott, Simon M ^a   Rahman, Pattanathu K S M ^a   Islam, Meez ^a   O'Hare, Liam ^a   Ali, Zulfiqur ^a  

^a TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bioprocessing; Fabrication; In vitro; In vivo; Microbioreactor; Microenvironment; Microfluidics

Indexed keywords

BIOCONVERSION; BIOREACTORS; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; FABRICATION; MICROFLUIDICS; STEM CELLS; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

BIOPROCESSING; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; MICRO-BIOREACTOR; MICROENVIRONMENTS;

CELL ENGINEERING;

EID: 80052932423     PISSN: 18764029     EISSN: 18764037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1876402911103020137     Document Type: Review

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