Sacrificial nanofibrous composites provide instruction without impediment and enable functional tissue formation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 35, 2012, Pages 14176-14181

  Baker, Brendon M ^a,b   Shah, Roshan P ^a   Silverstein, Amy M ^a,b   Esterhai, John L ^a,c   Burdick, Jason A ^b   Mauck, Robert L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Electrospinning; Meniscus fibrocartilage; Nanofiber; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; MACROGOL; NANOCOMPOSITE; NANOFIBER; POLYCAPROLACTONE; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CELL DENSITY; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL POLARITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITOMETRY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROCARTILAGE; FREEZE DRYING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; KNEE MENISCUS; LOCOMOTION; NANOFABRICATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; TENSILE STRENGTH; THICKNESS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; CHONDROCYTES; FIBROCARTILAGE; HUMANS; LACTONES; MALE; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, ANIMAL; NANOFIBERS; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REGENERATION; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENSILE STRENGTH; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 84865563892     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1206962109     Document Type: Article

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