The impact of substrate stiffness and mechanical loading on fibroblast-induced scaffold remodeling

Tissue Engineering - Part A

Volumn 18, Issue 17-18, 2012, Pages 1804-1817

  Petersen, Ansgar ^a   Joly, Pascal ^a   Bergmann, Camilla ^a   Korus, Gabriela ^a   Duda, Georg N ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; BIOREACTORS; CELL CULTURE; COLLAGEN; ENZYME INHIBITION; FIBROBLASTS; LOADS (FORCES); SCAFFOLDS; SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY); STIFFNESS;

BIOREACTOR SYSTEM; CELL BEHAVIORS; COLLAGEN SCAFFOLDS; COMPRESSION FORCE; CYCLIC MECHANICAL LOADING; EXTRACELLULAR MATRICES; IN-VITRO; INFLUENCE MATRIX; MECHANICAL BOUNDARIES; MECHANICAL CELLS; MECHANICAL ENVIRONMENT; MECHANICAL LOADING; MECHANICAL PARAMETERS; SCAFFOLD CONSTRUCTS; UP-REGULATION; YOUNG'S MODULUS;

LOADING;

COLLAGEN; FIBRONECTIN; INTERSTITIAL COLLAGENASE; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMISTRY; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; MATERIALS TESTING; MECHANICAL STRESS; METABOLISM; ONLINE SYSTEM; REPRODUCIBILITY; SWINE; TIME; ULTRASTRUCTURE; YOUNG MODULUS;

ANIMALS; BIOREACTORS; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLLAGEN; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; ELASTIC MODULUS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FIBROBLASTS; FIBRONECTINS; HUMANS; MATERIALS TESTING; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 1; ONLINE SYSTEMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SUS SCROFA; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 84861512329     PISSN: 19373341     EISSN: 1937335X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2011.0514     Document Type: Article

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