Modulation of mesenchymal stem cell shape in enzyme-sensitive hydrogels is decoupled from upregulation of fibroblast markers under cyclic tension

Tissue Engineering - Part A

Volumn 18, Issue 21-22, 2012, Pages 2365-2375

  Yang, Peter J ^a   Levenston, Marc E ^b   Temenoff, Johnna S ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL SPREADING; COLLAGEN I; CYCLIC STRAIN; CYCLIC TENSILE STRAIN; CYCLIC TENSION; DEGRADABILITY; GEL-TYPE; IMMUNOSTAINING; IN-VIVO; KEY PARAMETERS; MAJOR FACTORS; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASES; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; PEPTIDE SEQUENCES; POLY(ETHYLENE GLYCOL) HYDROGEL; POLYMER BACKBONES; UP-REGULATION;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; COLLAGEN; FIBROBLASTS; GELS; GENE EXPRESSION; HYDROGELS; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; STEM CELLS; TENSILE STRAIN;

CELL CULTURE;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DNA; MACROGOL DERIVATIVE; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE;

ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SHAPE; CHEMISTRY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; HYDROGEL; MECHANICAL STRESS; MESENCHYMAL STROMA CELL; METABOLISM; SYNTHESIS; TENDON; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; UPREGULATION;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SHAPE; DNA; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; HYDROGEL; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASES; MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENDONS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84868548808     PISSN: 19373341     EISSN: 1937335X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2011.0727     Document Type: Article

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