Ultra-Soft PDMS-Based Magnetoactive Elastomers as Dynamic Cell Culture Substrata

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Mayer, Matthias ^a   Rabindranath, Raman ^b   Börner, Juliane ^c   Hörner, Eva ^a   Bentz, Alexander ^a   Salgado, Josefina ^c   Han, Hong ^c   Böse, Holger ^b   Probst, Jörn ^b   Shamonin, Mikhail ^a   Monkman, Gareth J ^a   Schlunck, Günther ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SILICATE RESEARCH ISC   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; DIMETICONE; SILASTIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX7;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAGNETIC FIELD; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; OSCILLATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; YOUNG MODULUS;

CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; DERMIS; DIMETHYLPOLYSILOXANES; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTOMERS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; NYLONS; SILICONES;

EID: 84885783841     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076196     Document Type: Article

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