Engineering of a 3D nanostructured scaffold made of functionalized self-assembling peptides and encapsulated neural stem cells

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 1058, Issue , 2013, Pages 171-182

  Cunha, Carla ^a   Panseri, Silvia ^b,c   Gelain, Fabrizio ^d,e  

^a INEB INSTITUTO DE ENGENHARIA BIOMÉDICA   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR CERAMICS   (Italy)

^c RIZZOLI ORTHOPAEDIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^d CASA SOLLIEVO DELLA SOFFERENZA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e OSPEDALE NIGUARDA CA GRANDA   (Italy)

Author keywords

3D scaffold; Biomaterials; Neural stem cells; Self assembling peptides

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ARGININE; ARGINYLGLYCYLASPARTIC ACID; ASPARTIC ACID; BIOMATERIAL; BONE MARROW HOMING PEPTIDE; COLLAGEN TYPE 6; MOLECULAR SCAFFOLD; PEPTIDE; SELF ASSEMBLING PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT STEM CELL; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; LABORATORY DEVICE; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOUSE; NANOENCAPSULATION; NANOENGINEERING; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN MOTIF; PURIFICATION; STEM CELL EXPANSION; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84883213165     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/7651-2012-2     Document Type: Article

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