A review of the responses of two-and three-dimensional engineered tissues to electric fields

Tissue Engineering - Part B: Reviews

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 167-180

  Hronik Tupaj, Marie ^a   Kaplan, David L ^a  

^a Tufts University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ALTERNATING CURRENT; BIOELECTROMAGNETISM; CAPACITIVELY COUPLED; CELLULAR MECHANISMS; CHEMICAL FACTORS; DIRECT-CURRENT DEVICES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ENGINEERED TISSUES; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; INDUCTIVELY-COUPLED; TISSUE FUNCTION; TISSUE GROWTH; TISSUE RESPONSE;

ADHESION; CELL PROLIFERATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROTHERAPEUTICS; STIMULATED EMISSION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

TISSUE;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVICES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HEALING; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFECTION PREVENTION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE GROWTH; TISSUE REGENERATION;

ANIMALS; ELECTRICITY; HUMANS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 84861800932     PISSN: 19373368     EISSN: 19373376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.teb.2011.0244     Document Type: Review

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