The effects of substrate elastic modulus on neural precursor cell behavior

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1193-1207

  Previtera, Michelle L ^a,b   Hui, Mason ^a   Verma, Devendra ^a   Shahin, Abdelhamid J ^a   Schloss, Rene ^a   Langrana, Noshir A ^a,b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomaterials; Dendrite branching; Repair; Spinal cord injury; Stem cells; Stiffness

Indexed keywords

CELL MATRIX INTERACTIONS; DENDRITE BRANCHING; ENDOGENOUS STEM CELLS; MICROENVIRONMENTS; NEURAL PRECURSORS; NEURONAL DIFFERENTIATION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES (SCI); TISSUE ELASTICITY;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMATERIALS; CYTOLOGY; ELASTICITY; NEURONS; PATIENT REHABILITATION; REPAIR; STIFFNESS; SUBSTRATES;

STEM CELLS;

ACRYLAMIDE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; KI 67 ANTIGEN; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; MTAP2 PROTEIN, RAT; NERVE PROTEIN; NESTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; ELASTICITY; MIXED CELL CULTURE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PARENCHYMA; RAT; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD CELL CULTURE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD REGENERATION; YOUNG MODULUS; ANIMAL; CELL ADHESION; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; ELASTIC MODULUS; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; KI-67 ANTIGEN; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD; STEM CELLS;

EID: 84886745344     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-013-0765-y     Document Type: Article

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