Modified plastic compression of collagen hydrogels provides an ideal matrix for clinically applicable skin substitutes

Tissue Engineering - Part C: Methods

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 464-474

  Braziulis, Erik ^a   Diezi, Mirco ^a   Biedermann, Thomas ^a   Pontiggia, Luca ^a   Schmucki, Marlene ^a   Hartmann Fritsch, Fabienne ^a   Luginbühl, Joachim ^a   Schiestl, Clemens ^a   Meuli, Martin ^a   Reichmann, Ernst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; SAFE HANDLING; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ANIMAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; COLLAGEN TYPE I; DERMAL CELLS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRICES; MODIFIED PLASTICS; NORMAL SKIN; SKIN DEFECTS; SKIN SUBSTITUTES;

HYDROGELS;

ANIMALIA;

COLLAGEN; PLASTIC; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL SKIN; CATTLE; CHEMISTRY; DERMIS; DRUG EFFECT; EPIDERMIS; HUMAN; HYDROGEL; MALE; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; RAT; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; TIME; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TRANSPLANTATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; COLLAGEN; DERMIS; EPIDERMIS; HUMANS; HYDROGELS; MALE; PLASTICS; RATS; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SKIN, ARTIFICIAL; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 84861799634     PISSN: 19373384     EISSN: 19373392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tec.2011.0561     Document Type: Article

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