A microfabricated platform to measure and manipulate the mechanics of engineered cardiac microtissues

Tissue Engineering - Part A

Volumn 18, Issue 9-10, 2012, Pages 910-919

  Boudou, Thomas ^a   Legant, Wesley R ^a   Mu, Anbin ^b   Borochin, Michael A ^a   Thavandiran, Nimalan ^c   Radisic, Milica ^c   Zandstra, Peter W ^c   Epstein, Jonathan A ^b   Margulies, Kenneth B ^b   Chen, Christopher S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; CELLS; COLLAGEN; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MEMS; STIFFNESS MATRIX; TISSUE;

CALCIUM DYNAMICS; CARDIAC CELL; CARDIAC CONTRACTION; CARDIAC TISSUES; CELL ALIGNMENT; CELL SOURCES; COLLAGEN MATRICES; CONTRACTION FREQUENCY; DYNAMIC FORCES; ELECTRICAL STIMULATIONS; ELECTRICAL STIMULI; ENGINEERED TISSUES; FLUORESCENT DYES; FORCE GENERATION; FUNDAMENTAL FEATURES; HEART TISSUES; HIGH SPEED IMAGING; HIGH-THROUGHPUT; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; LOWER DENSITY; MATRIX RIGIDITY; MECHANICAL STIFFNESS; MICRO-CANTILEVERS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL-SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGIES; MICROFABRICATED; MICROPATTERNED; MYOCARDIAL TISSUE; NEONATAL RAT; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; REAL TIME; STATIC TENSION;

HEART;

RATTUS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HEART; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; METHODOLOGY; MICROTECHNOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CELLS, CULTURED; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HEART; MICROTECHNOLOGY; MYOCARDIUM; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84860527213     PISSN: 19373341     EISSN: 1937335X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2011.0341     Document Type: Article

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