The expanding world of tissue engineering: The building blocks and new applications of tissue engineered constructs

IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 6, Issue , 2013, Pages 47-62

  Zorlutuna, Pinar ^a,b   Vrana, Nihal Engin ^a,c   Khademhosseini, Ali ^a,d,e  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c PROTIP MEDICAL   (France)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biorobotics; cell aggregates; modular tissue engineering; organ models; organ on a chip; pre vascularization; synthetic polypeptides

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BIOMIMETIC PROCESSES; CELL ENGINEERING; HISTOLOGY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RESEARCH; TISSUE;

BIO-ROBOTICS; CELL AGGREGATES; ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; ORGAN-ON-A-CHIP; PRE-VASCULARIZATION; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; TISSUE ENGINEERED CONSTRUCTS; TISSUE ENGINEERING SCAFFOLD;

SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ANIMALS; DRUG DISCOVERY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; ROBOTICS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84875863922     PISSN: 19373333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/RBME.2012.2233468     Document Type: Article

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