Polysaccharide hydrogels with tunable stiffness and provasculogenic properties via α-helix to β-sheet switch in secondary structure

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

Volumn 110, Issue 32, 2013, Pages 12887-12892

  Forget, Aurelien ^a   Christensen, Jon ^a   Lüdeke, Steffen ^a   Kohler, Esther ^a   Tobias, Simon ^a   Matloubi, Maziar ^a   Thomann, Ralf ^a   Prasad, V Shastri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Cell carrier; Extracellular matrix; Regenerative medicine; Vascular biology

Indexed keywords

AGAROSE; POLYSACCHARIDE;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; CARBOXYLATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GELATION; HUMAN; HYDROGEL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RIGIDITY;

ANGIOGENESIS; CELL CARRIER; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; VASCULAR BIOLOGY;

CARBOHYDRATE CONFORMATION; CARRAGEENAN; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; HUMAN UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; HYDROGELS; HYDROGEN BONDING; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; POLYSACCHARIDES; RHEOLOGY; SEPHAROSE; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED;

EID: 84881423409     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1222880110     Document Type: Article

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