Local tissue geometry determines contractile force generation of engineered muscle networks

Tissue Engineering - Part A

Volumn 18, Issue 9-10, 2012, Pages 957-967

  Bian, Weining ^a   Juhas, Mark ^b   Pfeiler, Terry W ^b   Bursac, Nenad ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; GEOMETRY; SYNCHROTRONS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

CONTRACTILE FORCE; ELASTOMERIC TISSUES; ELONGATED PORES; FIBRIN GELS; FUNCTIONAL OUTPUTS; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; LOCAL DISTRIBUTIONS; MUSCLE TISSUES; MYOFIBERS; PORE GEOMETRY; PORE LENGTH; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STRUCTURE-FUNCTION RELATIONSHIP; STRUCTURE-FUNCTION STUDIES; SYSTEMATIC VARIATION; TISSUE GEOMETRY;

MUSCLE;

BAYSILON; DIMETICONE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MYOBLAST; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; DIMETHYLPOLYSILOXANES; MYOBLASTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84860531673     PISSN: 19373341     EISSN: 1937335X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2011.0313     Document Type: Article

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