Substrate stiffness modulates gene expression and phenotype in neonatal cardiomyocytes in vitro

Tissue Engineering - Part A

Volumn 18, Issue 17-18, 2012, Pages 1837-1848

  Forte, Giancarlo ^a   Pagliari, Stefania ^a   Ebara, Mitsuhiro ^a   Uto, Koichiro ^a   Van Tam, Janice Kal ^a   Romanazzo, Sara ^a   Escobedo Lucea, Carmen ^b,c,d   Romano, Elena ^e   Di Nardo, Paolo ^e   Traversa, Enrico ^a   Aoyagi, Takao ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN PRÍNCIPE FELIPE   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE; BIOMATERIALS; BIOMECHANICS; CELL ADHESION; CELLS; ELECTROMECHANICAL COUPLING; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART; PROTEINS; STIFFNESS; STIFFNESS MATRIX; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

CAPROLACTONE; CARDIAC CELL; CARDIAC MUSCLES; CARDIAC TISSUE ENGINEERING; CARDIAC TISSUES; CARDIOMYOCYTES; CELL BEHAVIORS; CELL DELIVERY SYSTEMS; CELL PREPARATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONNEXIN 43; DIFFERENTIAL REGULATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX REMODELING; HOST CELLS; HOSTILE ENVIRONMENTS; IN-VITRO; INFLAMMATORY PROCESS; MECHANOSENSITIVITY; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; NANO SCALE; NEOANGIOGENESIS; PLANAR LAYERS; SOFT FILM; STIFFER MATERIALS; SURFACE STIFFNESS; SYNTHETIC MATERIALS; UP-REGULATION; YOUNG'S MODULUS;

SUBSTRATES;

MURINAE;

CONNEXIN 43; CROSS LINKING REAGENT; POLYCAPROLACTONE; POLYESTER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SHAPE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; MECHANICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NEWBORN; PHENOTYPE; SARCOMERE; TIME; WETTABILITY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SHAPE; CELLS, CULTURED; CONNEXIN 43; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MECHANICAL PHENOMENA; MICE; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; PHENOTYPE; POLYESTERS; SARCOMERES; TIME FACTORS; WETTABILITY;

EID: 84866995936     PISSN: 19373341     EISSN: 1937335X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2011.0707     Document Type: Article

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