Chitosan: A promising biomaterial for tissue engineering scaffolds

Advances in Polymer Science

Volumn 244, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 45-80

  Dutta, P K ^a   Rinki, Kumari ^a   Dutta, Joydeep ^b  

^a MOTILAL NEHRU NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b Disha Institute of Management and Technology   (India)

Author keywords

Bone; Chitosan; Nerve; Scaffolds; Skin; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053504079     PISSN: 00653195     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/12_2011_112     Document Type: Article

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