Alignment of human vascular smooth muscle cells on parallel electrospun synthetic elastin fibers

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research - Part A

Volumn 100 A, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 155-161

  Nivison Smith, Lisa ^a   Weiss, Anthony S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

alignment; elastin; electrospinning; parallel fibers; smooth muscle cells

Indexed keywords

ALIGNED FIBERS; CROSSLINKED; ELASTIC FIBER; ELASTIN; ELECTROSPUNS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRICES; HUMAN VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS; PARALLEL FIBERS; RANDOM FIBERS; SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTINS; SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS; TROPOELASTIN;

ALIGNMENT; CELLS; ELECTROSPINNING; GLYCOPROTEINS; MUSCLE; PROTEINS;

FIBERS;

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; ELASTIN; TROPOELASTIN;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; ELECTROSPINNING; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; SYNTHETIC FIBER; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ACTIN CYTOSKELETON; BIOMECHANICS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL COUNT; CELLS, CULTURED; ELASTIN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; TROPOELASTIN;

EID: 81855193943     PISSN: 15493296     EISSN: 15524965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.33255     Document Type: Article

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