Tissue engineering and regenerative strategies to replicate biocomplexity of vascular elastic matrix assembly

Tissue Engineering - Part B: Reviews

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 203-217

  Bashur, Chris A ^a   Venkataraman, Lavanya ^a,b   Ramamurthi, Anand ^a,b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Clemson University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSMS; BIOCOMPLEXITY; CARDIOVASCULAR TISSUES; CELL SIGNALING; CELL TYPES; CELLULAR MICROENVIRONMENT; CONTACT GUIDANCE; ELASTIC MATRIX; ELASTOGENESIS; ENGINEERING MATERIALS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRICES; GROWTH FACTOR; IN-SITU; MATRIX REPAIR; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; POTENTIAL UTILITY; SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL CHANGES; STRUCTURAL CONFIGURATIONS; TISSUE ENGINEERS; VASCULAR CELLS; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULAR HOMEOSTASIS; VASCULAR TISSUE;

BIOMECHANICS; ENGINEERS; GLYCOPROTEINS; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TISSUE;

SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

COLLAGEN; ELASTIN; FIBRIN; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN; HYALURONIC ACID; MESSENGER RNA; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ; POLYCAPROLACTONE; POLYURETHAN; PROSTAGLANDIN A; SCAFFOLD PROTEIN; SILK FIBROIN; SOMATOMEDIN; TISSUE SCAFFOLD; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TROPOELASTIN; VERSICAN;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ARTERY INTIMA; BIOAVAILABILITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL STIMULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TYPE; COMPLEX FORMATION; ELASTIC FIBER; ELASTIC TISSUE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MICROENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE REGENERATION; UPREGULATION; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VASCULAR TISSUE;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BLOOD VESSELS; ELASTICITY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMANS; REGENERATION; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84861826052     PISSN: 19373368     EISSN: 19373376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.teb.2011.0521     Document Type: Review

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