Primordium of an artificial Bruch's membrane made of nanofibers for engineering of retinal pigment epithelium cell monolayers

Acta Biomaterialia

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 9414-9422

  Warnke, Patrick H ^a   Alamein, Mohammad ^a,b   Skabo, Stuart ^b   Stephens, Sebastien ^a   Bourke, Robert ^c   Heiner, Peter ^c   Liu, Qin ^b  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Clem Jones Research Centre for Stem Cells and Tissue Regenerative Therapies   (Australia)

^c Vision Eye Institute   (Australia)

Author keywords

Macular degeneration; Nanofibers; Needle free electrospinning; Retinal pigment epithelial transplantation; Three dimensional membrane

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDES; CELL ENGINEERING; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROSPINNING; MEMBRANES; MONOLAYERS; NEEDLES; OPHTHALMOLOGY;

BRUCH'S MEMBRANE; CELL MONOLAYERS; EPITHELIUM CELLS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; NANOFIBROUS MEMBRANES; NEEDLE-FREE ELECTROSPINNING; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIAL; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIAL TRANSPLANTATION; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMBRANE;

NANOFIBERS;

COLLAGEN FIBER; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; NANOFIBER;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; BRUCH MEMBRANE; CELL ADHESION; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTICITY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MICROVILLUS; NANOENGINEERING; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIMORDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; TENSILE STRENGTH; THICKNESS; TIGHT JUNCTION; YOUNG MODULUS;

MACULAR DEGENERATION; NANOFIBERS; NEEDLE-FREE ELECTROSPINNING; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIAL TRANSPLANTATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMBRANE;

BRUCH MEMBRANE; CELL ADHESION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SHAPE; CIS-TRANS-ISOMERASES; COLLAGEN; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LACTIC ACID; NANOFIBERS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; POLYGLYCOLIC ACID; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; TISSUE ENGINEERING; ZONULA OCCLUDENS-1 PROTEIN;

EID: 84887140921     PISSN: 17427061     EISSN: 18787568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2013.07.029     Document Type: Article

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