Microtissue engineered constructs with living axons for targeted nervous system reconstruction

Tissue Engineering - Part A

Volumn 18, Issue 21-22, 2012, Pages 2280-2289

  Kacy Cullen, D ^a   Tang Schomer, Min D ^a   Struzyna, Laura A ^a   Patel, Ankur R ^a   Johnson, Victoria E ^a   Wolf, John A ^a   Smith, Douglas H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAROSE; AXON GROWTH; COLLAGEN MATRICES; DEVASTATING EFFECTS; DORSAL ROOT GANGLIA; HIGH RESOLUTION; HYDROGEL TUBE; INNER DIAMETERS; ITERATIVE PROCESS; MICROCONDUITS; MICROSCOPY DEMONSTRATED; MINIMALLY INVASIVE; NEUROLOGICAL DISEASE; NEURON CULTURE; NEURONAL SURVIVAL; OUTER DIAMETERS; STRUCTURAL SUPPORT; SYSTEM RECONSTRUCTION;

COLLAGEN; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; HYDROGELS; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

NEURONS;

COLLAGEN; SEPHAROSE; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL POLARITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; GLIA; METHODOLOGY; NERVE FIBER; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURITE; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CELL POLARITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; COLLAGEN; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURITES; NEUROGLIA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEPHAROSE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 84868531733     PISSN: 19373341     EISSN: 1937335X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2011.0534     Document Type: Article

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