Investigating a novel nanostructured fibrin-agarose biomaterial for human cornea tissue engineering: Rheological properties

Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1963-1973

  Ionescu, Ana Maria ^a   Alaminos, Miguel ^b   Cardona, Juan de la Cruz ^a   García López Durán, Juan de Dios ^a   González Andrades, Miguel ^b   Ghinea, Razvan ^a   Campos, Antonio ^b   Hita, Enrique ^a   Pérez, María del Mar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Elastic modulus; Fibrin agarose; Nanostructuring technique; Transparency; Viscous modulus

Indexed keywords

AGAROSE; ARTIFICIAL CORNEA; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; EX-VIVO; FIBRIN-AGAROSE; HUMAN CORNEA; HUMAN CORNEAL; NANO-STRUCTURED; NANO-STRUCTURING; NATURAL OSCILLATION; OPTIMAL LEVEL; OSCILLATORY SHEAR; RHEOLOGICAL BEHAVIORS; RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTY; TEMPORAL EVALUATION; VISCOUS MODULUS;

ARTIFICIAL ORGANS; BIOMATERIALS; ELASTIC MODULI; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR STRESS; TISSUE; TRANSPARENCY;

TISSUE ENGINEERING;

AGAROSE; FIBRIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA OPACITY; CORNEA STROMA; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; EX VIVO STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR STRESS; TISSUE ENGINEERING; VISCOELASTICITY;

BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CORNEAL STROMA; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBRIN; HUMANS; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICAL PROCESSES; RHEOLOGY; SEPHAROSE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 81255158837     PISSN: 17516161     EISSN: 18780180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2011.06.013     Document Type: Article

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