An ice-templated, linearly aligned chitosan-alginate scaffold for neural tissue engineering

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research - Part A

Volumn 101, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3493-3503

  Francis, Nicola L ^a   Hunger, Philipp M ^b   Donius, Amalie E ^b   Riblett, Benjamin W ^b   Zavaliangos, Antonios ^b   Wegst, Ulrike G K ^c   Wheatley, Margaret A ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Drexel University   (United States)

^c DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

alginate; axon regeneration; chitosan; freeze casting; scaffold

Indexed keywords

ALIGNED POROUS STRUCTURES; AXON REGENERATION; AXONAL REGENERATION; DORSAL ROOT GANGLIA; FREEZE CASTING; NEURAL TISSUE ENGINEERING; PARALLEL ALIGNMENTS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES (SCI);

ALGINATE; AMINO ACIDS; BIOMATERIALS; CHITOSAN; NEURONS; SCAFFOLDS;

SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

ALGINIC ACID; CHITOSAN; ICE; LAMININ; MOLECULAR SCAFFOLD; ORNITHINE; POLYCATION; POLYLYSINE;

ADSORPTION; ANIMAL TISSUE; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CHICK; CROSS LINKING; DEGRADATION; DORSAL ROOT; EMBRYO; EXPLANT; FREEZING; GANGLION; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVOUS TISSUE; NEURITE; NONHUMAN; RIGIDITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD LESION; STRENGTH; SUSPENSION; TISSUE ENGINEERING; YOUNG MODULUS;

ALGINATE; AXON REGENERATION; CHITOSAN; FREEZE CASTING; SCAFFOLD;

ALGINATES; ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; CHICK EMBRYO; CHITOSAN; FREEZING; GANGLIA, SPINAL; GLUCURONIC ACID; HEXURONIC ACIDS; ICE; MATERIALS TESTING; MECHANICAL PHENOMENA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEURITES; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84886726398     PISSN: 15493296     EISSN: 15524965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.34668     Document Type: Article

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