Engineering synthetic hydrogel microenvironments to instruct stem cells

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 841-846

  Guvendiren, Murat ^a   Burdick, Jason A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL BEHAVIORS; CELL-BASED THERAPY; CULTURE SYSTEMS; DELIVERY VEHICLE; IN-VITRO MODELS; MECHANICAL SIGNALS; MICROENVIRONMENTS; SPATIOTEMPORAL CONTROL;

BIODEGRADATION; STEM CELLS;

HYDROGELS;

GROWTH FACTOR;

BIOENGINEERING; CELL ADHESION; CELL ENCAPSULATION; CELL FUNCTION; DEGRADATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MICROENVIRONMENT; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STEM CELL; STEM CELL CULTURE; SYNTHETIC HYDROGEL;

EID: 84884416974     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: 18790429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2013.03.009     Document Type: Review

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