Electrospun human keratin matrices as templates for tissue regeneration

Nanomedicine

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 531-541

  Sow, Wan Ting ^a   Lui, Yuan Siang ^a,b   Ng, Kee Woei ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

electrospinning; human hair; keratin; regenerative medicine; tissue engineering; wound healing

Indexed keywords

KERATIN; MACROGOL;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VIABILITY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; ELECTROSPINNING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FIBROBLAST; HAIR; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TISSUE REGENERATION;

EID: 84875944211     PISSN: 17435889     EISSN: 17486963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/nnm.13.38     Document Type: Article

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