Construction of cell density-controlled 3D hierarchic tissues using cell beads

15th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences 2011, MicroTAS 2011

Volumn 3, Issue , 2011, Pages 1932-1934

  Tanaka, R ^a   Matsunaga, Y T ^a,b   Takeuchi, S ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

3D skin model; 3D tissue; Cell density; Hierarchic structure; Micrufluidic gel bead formation

Indexed keywords

3-D TISSUES; CELL DENSITY; GEL BEADS; HIERARCHIC STRUCTURES; SKIN MODEL;

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; SILICONES; TISSUE;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84883816739     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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