Construction and characterization of an electrospun tubular scaffold for small-diameter tissue-engineered vascular grafts: A scaffold membrane approach

Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

Volumn 13, Issue , 2012, Pages 140-155

  Hu, Jin Jia ^a   Chao, Wei Chih ^a   Lee, Pei Yuan ^a,b   Huang, Chih Hao ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Show Chwan Memorial Hospital   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Aligned fibers; Electrospinning; Mechanical properties; Scaffold membrane; Small diameter tissue engineered vascular grafts

Indexed keywords

ALIGNED FIBERS; BIAXIAL MECHANICAL TESTING; CAPROLACTONE; CELL SEEDING; DRUM ROTATION SPEED; ELECTROSPUNS; FIBER DIRECTION; INNER DIAMETERS; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; OFF-AXIS FIBERS; POISSON EFFECTS; ROTATING DRUMS; TUBULAR SCAFFOLD; VASCULAR GRAFTS; VASCULAR TISSUE ENGINEERING;

BIOMECHANICS; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; ELASTIC MODULI; ELECTROSPINNING; FIBERS; GRAFTS; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MECHANICAL TESTING; MEMBRANES; MICROSTRUCTURE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE;

SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

POLYCAPROLACTONE;

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; ELECTROSPINNING; HISTOLOGY; MATERIALS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAFFOLD MEMBRANE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE REGENERATION; TUBULAR SCAFFOLD;

ANIMALS; ELECTRICITY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; MECHANICAL PROCESSES; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MICE; MICROTECHNOLOGY; NIH 3T3 CELLS; ROTATION; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; VASCULAR GRAFTING;

EID: 84864335175     PISSN: 17516161     EISSN: 18780180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2012.04.013     Document Type: Article

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