Development of Hydrogels and Biomimetic regulators as tissue engineering scaffolds

Membranes

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 70-90

  Shi, Junbin ^a,b   Xing, Malcolm M Q ^a,b   Zhong, Wen ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b MANITOBA INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bone; Hydrogel; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETICS; BONE; HYDROGELS; SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY); TISSUE;

BONE TISSUE ENGINEERING; EXTRACELLULAR MATRICES; PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; PREPARATION METHOD; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SCAFFOLDS FOR TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE ENGINEERING SCAFFOLD;

TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84858808501     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20770375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/membranes2010070     Document Type: Review

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