A novel and simple microcontact printing technique for tacky, soft substrates and/or complex surfaces in soft tissue engineering

Acta Biomaterialia

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1267-1272

  Yu, Haiyang ^a   Xiong, Sijing ^a   Tay, Chor Yong ^a   Leong, Wen Shing ^a   Tan, Lay Poh ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

hMSCs; Microcontact printing; Soft surface; Tacky surface; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; CELL ENGINEERING; COST EFFECTIVENESS; SILICONES; STEM CELLS; SUBSTRATES; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

COMPLEX SURFACE; HMSC; MICRO CONTACT PRINTING; MICRO PATTERNING; MICROCONTACT PRINTING TECHNIQUES; SIMPLE++; SOFT SURFACE; SOFT TISSUE ENGINEERING; TACKY SURFACE; TISSUES ENGINEERINGS;

PROTEINS;

POLYVINYL ALCOHOL;

ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MICROCONTACT PRINTING; MICROTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DESIGN; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOFT TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84856538380     PISSN: 17427061     EISSN: 18787568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2011.09.006     Document Type: Article

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