Control of stem cell fate and function by engineering physical microenvironments

Integrative Biology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1008-1018

  Kshitiz, ^a,b   Park, Jinseok ^b   Kim, Peter ^a,b   Helen, Wilda ^c   Engler, Adam J ^c   Levchenko, Andre ^b   Kim, Deok Ho ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; CELL FATE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL RENEWAL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MICROENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; STEM CELL NICHE; STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 84870884245     PISSN: 17579694     EISSN: 17579708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c2ib20080e     Document Type: Review

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