Generation and differentiation of microtissues from multipotent precursor cells for use in tissue engineering

Nature Protocols

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1726-1735

  Langenbach, Fabian ^a   Berr, Karin ^a   Naujoks, Christian ^a   Hassel, Andrea ^a   Hentschel, Michael ^a   Depprich, Rita ^a   Kubler, Norbert R ^a   Meyer, Ulrich ^b   Wiesmann, Hans Peter ^c   Kögler, Gesine ^a   Handschel, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

^b MKG Münster   (Germany)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSPHERE;

ARTICLE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HISTOLOGY; MINERALIZATION; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA ISOLATION; STEM CELL; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; FETAL BLOOD; HUMANS; MICROSPHERES; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELLS; OSTEOGENESIS; RNA; STAINING AND LABELING; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 80054801465     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2011.394     Document Type: Article

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