Degradation-mediated cellular traction directs stem cell fate in covalently crosslinked three-dimensional hydrogels

Nature Materials

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 458-465

  Khetan, Sudhir ^a   Guvendiren, Murat ^a   Legant, Wesley R ^a   Cohen, Daniel M ^a   Chen, Christopher S ^a   Burdick, Jason A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOLOGY; HYALURONIC ACID; MORPHOLOGY; ORGANIC ACIDS; STEM CELLS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ADHESIVE INTERACTION; CELLULAR MORPHOLOGY; CELLULAR TRACTION; COVALENTLY CROSS-LINKED; EQUIVALENT ELASTIC MODULUS; HUMAN MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS (HMSCS); HYDROGEL DEGRADATION; STEM CELL DIFFERENTIATION;

HYDROGELS;

HYALURONIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; HYDROGEL; MESENCHYMAL STROMA CELL; METABOLISM; PROTEIN DEGRADATION;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HUMANS; HYALURONIC ACID; HYDROGELS; MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS; OSTEOGENESIS; PROTEOLYSIS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84876688583     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3586     Document Type: Article

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