MMP-Sensitive PEG Diacrylate Hydrogels with Spatial Variations in Matrix Properties Stimulate Directional Vascular Sprout Formation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Turturro, Michael V ^a   Christenson, Megan C ^a   Larson, Jeffery C ^a   Young, Daniel A ^a   Brey, Eric M ^a,b   Papavasiliou, Georgia ^a  

^a Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b HINES VA HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MACROGOL; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL DIACRYLATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL CULTURE; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYMATIC DEGRADATION; ENZYME IMMOBILIZATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYDROGEL; POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; TISSUE ENGINEERING; YOUNG MODULUS;

BIOMECHANICS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; ELASTIC MODULUS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; HYDROGELS; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASES; PEPTIDES; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 84874855535     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058897     Document Type: Article

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