Intervertebral disk tissue engineering using biphasic silk composite scaffolds

Tissue Engineering - Part A

Volumn 18, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 447-458

  Park, Sang Hyug ^a   Gil, Eun Seok ^a   Cho, Hongsik ^b   Mandal, Biman B ^a   Tien, Lee W ^a   Min, Byoung Hyun ^c   Kaplan, David L ^a  

^a Tufts University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c Ajou University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY FLUIDS; CARTILAGE; CELL CULTURE; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOLOGY; HYBRID MATERIALS; HYDROGELS; LAMELLAR STRUCTURES; RESTORATION; SILK; TISSUE; VOLTAGE DIVIDERS;

ANNULUS FIBROSUS; BIOCHEMICAL ASSAY; BIOMATERIAL STRUCTURES; BIPHASIC; BIPHASIC SCAFFOLDS; CELL TYPES; CHONDROCYTES; COMPOSITE SCAFFOLDS; IN-VITRO; INNER DIAMETERS; INTERLAMELLAR DISTANCE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; NUCLEUS PULPOSUS; OUTER DIAMETERS; POROUS SCAFFOLD; POROUS SYSTEM; SCAFFOLD MORPHOLOGY; SILK PROTEINS; TISSUE FUNCTION;

SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

SUS;

FIBRIN; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOPROSTHESIS; CARTILAGE CELL; CELL CULTURE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; METABOLISM; SILK; SWINE; TIME;

ANIMALS; BIOPROSTHESIS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHONDROCYTES; FIBRIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC; SILK; SWINE; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 84857805340     PISSN: 19373341     EISSN: 1937335X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2011.0195     Document Type: Article

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