The effect of the duration of mechanical stimulation and post-stimulation culture on the structure and properties of dynamically compressed tissue-engineered menisci

Tissue Engineering - Part A

Volumn 18, Issue 13-14, 2012, Pages 1365-1375

  Puetzer, Jennifer L ^a   Ballyns, Jeffrey J ^a   Bonassar, Lawrence J ^a  

^a School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; COLLAGEN; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DYNAMIC LOADS; TISSUE;

BIOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES; BUNDLE FORMATION; COLLAGEN CONTENT; CROSSLINKED; DYNAMIC COMPRESSION; DYNAMIC LOADINGS; EQUILIBRIUM MODULI; EXTRACELLULAR MATRICES; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCANS; LOAD DURATION; LOADING CYCLES; MATRIX FORMATION; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MENISCAL FIBROCHONDROCYTES; STATIC CULTURE; STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES; VARYING LOAD;

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

BOVINAE;

COLLAGEN; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CELL CULTURE; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; IMAGE PROCESSING; KNEE MENISCUS; MECHANICAL STRESS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TISSUE ENGINEERING; YOUNG MODULUS;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELLS, CULTURED; COLLAGEN; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; ELASTIC MODULUS; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MENISCI, TIBIAL; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 84863960705     PISSN: 19373341     EISSN: 1937335X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2011.0589     Document Type: Article

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