Potential and Properties of Plant Proteins for Tissue Engineering Applications

IFMBE Proceedings

Volumn 23, Issue , 2009, Pages 1282-1284

  Reddy, Narendra ^a   Yang, Yiqi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Fibers; Plant proteins; Tensile properties; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

CELL ATTACHMENTS; CROSS LINKING AGENTS; CYTOCOMPATIBILITY; PHYSICAL STRUCTURES; PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITION; PLANT PROTEINS; TISSUE ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; WATER STABILITY;

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIOMECHANICS; COLLAGEN; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; STABILITY; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; TENSILE PROPERTIES; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

FIBERS;

EID: 84861688997     PISSN: 16800737     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-92841-6_315     Document Type: Conference Paper

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