Assembly of complex cell microenvironments using geometrically docked hydrogel shapes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4551-4556

  Eng, George ^a,b   Lee, Benjamin W ^a,b   Parsa, Hesam ^a   Chin, Curtis D ^a   Schneider, Jesse ^a   Linkov, Gary ^b   Sia, Samuel K ^a   Vunjak Novakovic, Gordana ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Diffusion; Microtechnologies; Modeling; Tissue assembly

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SHAPE; CHEMOTAXIS; COCULTURE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYDROGEL; MICROENVIRONMENT; MOLECULAR DOCKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHEMOTACTIC FACTORS; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; HUMAN UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; HYDROGELS; MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS; STEM CELL NICHE;

EID: 84875258119     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1300569110     Document Type: Article

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