Bioreactor design for tendon/ligament engineering

Tissue Engineering - Part B: Reviews

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 133-146

  Wang, Tao ^a   Gardiner, Bruce S ^a   Lin, Zhen ^a,b   Rubenson, Jonas ^a   Kirk, Thomas B ^c   Wang, Allan ^d   Xu, Jiake ^a   Smith, David W ^a   Lloyd, David G ^a,e   Zheng, Ming H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b GUANGDONG PROVINCIAL PEOPLE'S HOSPITAL   (China)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d SIR CHARLES GAIRDNER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOREACTOR DESIGN; BIOREACTOR SYSTEM; CELL PROPAGATION; CLINICAL SETTINGS; CULTURE ENVIRONMENTS; DESIGN PREFERENCES; END-PRODUCTS; HIGH REPRODUCIBILITY; IN-VIVO; LIGAMENT INJURY; MANUAL OPERATIONS; REQUIREMENTS TO DESIGNS; SYSTEMATIC STUDY; TISSUE SOURCES;

BIOCONVERSION; BIOMECHANICS; BIOREACTORS; DESIGN; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

TENDONS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 3; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 5; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ACCURACY; BIOREACTOR DESIGN; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FORCE; HISTOGENESIS; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; LIGAMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKIN FIBROBLAST; TEMPERATURE; TENDON; TISSUE CULTURE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE REGENERATION; UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELL;

ANIMALS; BIOREACTORS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; LIGAMENTS; REGENERATION; TENDONS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84874749402     PISSN: 19373368     EISSN: 19373376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.teb.2012.0295     Document Type: Review

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