Overcoming hypoxia to improve tissue-engineering approaches to regenerative medicine

Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 505-514

  Bland, Erik ^a   Dréau, Didier ^a,b   Burg, Karen J L ^a  

^a Clemson University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; HIF; Hypoxia; in vitro; Scaffold; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

HISTOLOGY; OXYGEN SUPPLY; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY); TISSUE;

'CURRENT; ANGIOGENESIS; CELLULAR SCAFFOLDS; HIF; HYPOXIA; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; TISSUES ENGINEERINGS; VASCULATURE;

OXYGENATION;

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FLUOROCARBON; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1ALPHA; INSULIN; OXYGEN DERIVATIVE; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR B; RADICAL; SOMATOMEDIN; THROMBIN; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; CELL CULTURE; CELL DENSITY; CELL METABOLISM; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL VIABILITY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN SENSING; OXYGEN SUPPLY; OXYGENATION; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; REVIEW; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84879555843     PISSN: 19326254     EISSN: 19327005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/term.540     Document Type: Review

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