Engineering three-dimensional cell mechanical microenvironment with hydrogels

Biofabrication

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Huang, Guoyou ^a   Wang, Lin ^a   Wang, Shuqi ^b   Han, Yulong ^a   Wu, Jinhui ^c   Zhang, Qiancheng ^a   Xu, Feng ^a   Lu, Tian Jian ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL BEHAVIORS; CELL RESPONSE; INDUCED STRESS; MECHANICAL CUES; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MECHANICAL STIMULUS; MICROENVIRONMENTS; PLANAR SUBSTRATE; TUNABLE PROPERTIES;

BIOMECHANICS; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; HYDROGELS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PLANTS (BOTANY); THREE DIMENSIONAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

CELL ENGINEERING;

ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; CELL ENGINEERING; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; HYDROGEL; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL ENGINEERING; CELLULAR MICROENVIRONMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; HYDROGELS;

EID: 84870385490     PISSN: 17585082     EISSN: 17585090     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1758-5082/4/4/042001     Document Type: Review

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