Fabrication of functional three-dimensional tissues by stacking cell sheets in vitro

Nature Protocols

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 850-858

  Haraguchi, Yuji ^a   Shimizu, Tatsuya ^a   Sasagawa, Tadashi ^a   Sekine, Hidekazu ^a   Sakaguchi, Katsuhisa ^a,b   Kikuchi, Tetsutaro ^a   Sekine, Waki ^a   Sekiya, Sachiko ^a   Yamato, Masayuki ^a   Umezu, Mitsuo ^b   Okano, Teruo ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAPILLARY; CELL SHEET ENGINEERING; CELL SHEET STACKING; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HEART; IN VITRO STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; THREE DIMENSIONAL TISSUE; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; GUIDED TISSUE REGENERATION; HUMAN UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; HYDROGEL; MYOBLASTS, SKELETAL; MYOCARDIUM; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84859579818     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2012.027     Document Type: Article

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