Nanomedicine: Gold nanowires to mend a heart: Incorporating gold nanowires into porous alginate scaffolds can improve the conductivity of engineered heart patches made from these materials

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 692-693

  Jaconi, Marisa E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOWIRES; SCAFFOLDS;

ALGINATE SCAFFOLDS; GOLD NANOWIRE;

GOLD;

CONNEXIN 43; GOLD NANOPARTICLE; MOLECULAR SCAFFOLD; NANOWIRE;

ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HEART; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HYDROGEL; MUSCLE FIBER CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE REGENERATION;

EID: 80755171554     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2011.195     Document Type: Article

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