Tailoring plla scaffolds for tissue engineering applications: Morphologies for 2D and 3D cell cultures

International Journal of Material Forming

Volumn 2, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages 717-720

  Pavia, F Carfì ^a   La Carrubba, V ^a   Brucato, V ^a   Ghersi, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cell coculture; Dermal reconstruction; TIPS; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

2D GROWTH; 3-D CELL CULTURE; 3-D GROWTH; CELL CO-CULTURES; CHEMICAL NATURE; COCULTURE; COMPLEX TISSUES; DE-MIXING; DERMAL RECONSTRUCTION; GROWTH BEHAVIOUR; HUMAN FIBROBLAST; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; KERATINOCYTES; PLLA; POROUS SURFACE; SAMPLE HOLDERS; SCAFFOLDS FOR TISSUE ENGINEERING; TERNARY SOLUTION; THERMALLY INDUCED PHASE SEPARATION; TIPS;

ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; FIBROBLASTS; MORPHOLOGY; PHASE SEPARATION; POLYPROPYLENES; SELF ASSEMBLY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

EID: 84856058375     PISSN: 19606206     EISSN: 19606214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12289-009-0546-1     Document Type: Article

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