A hybrid silk/RADA-based fibrous scaffold with triple hierarchy for ligament regeneration

Tissue Engineering - Part A

Volumn 18, Issue 13-14, 2012, Pages 1399-1409

  Chen, Kelei ^a   Sahoo, Sambit ^b   He, Pengfei ^a   Ng, Kian Siang ^a   Toh, Siew Lok ^a   Goh, James C H ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; BIOMIMETICS; COATINGS; COLLAGEN; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NANOFIBERS; PEPTIDES; REINFORCED PLASTICS; SILK; STEM CELLS; TISSUE;

BONE MARROW-DERIVED MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS; COLLAGEN TYPE I; ECM PROTEINS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRICES; FIBROUS SCAFFOLDS; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCANS; IN-CONTROL; LIGAMENT REGENERATION; MICROENVIRONMENTS; MICROFIBROUS; NANO-FIBROUS; NANOFIBER MESH; SELF-ASSEMBLED; SELF-ASSEMBLING PEPTIDES; SILK FIBER; SILK SCAFFOLD; STRUCTURAL HIERARCHIES; TEMPORAL EXPRESSIONS; TENSILE LOADS; TISSUE REGENERATION;

SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

COATINGS; COLLAGEN; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PEPTIDES; SCAFFOLDS; SILK; TISSUE;

COLLAGEN; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN; PEPTIDE; RADA16 I; RADA16-I; SILK; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BOMBYX; CELL ADHESION; CELL COUNT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LIGAMENT; MATERIALS TESTING; MESENCHYMAL STROMA CELL; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RABBIT; REGENERATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TISSUE ENGINEERING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; BOMBYX; CELL ADHESION; CELL COUNT; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLLAGEN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCANS; LIGAMENTS; MATERIALS TESTING; MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PEPTIDES; RABBITS; REGENERATION; SILK; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 84863930863     PISSN: 19373341     EISSN: 1937335X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2011.0376     Document Type: Article

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