Fabrication of electrospun poly(l-Lactide-co-Eε-Caprolactone)/collagen nanoyarn network as a novel, three-dimensional, macroporous, aligned scaffold for tendon tissue engineering

Tissue Engineering - Part C: Methods

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 925-936

  Xu, Yuan ^a   Wu, Jinglei ^b   Wang, Haoming ^a   Li, Hanqin ^a   Di, Ning ^a   Song, Lei ^a   Li, Sontao ^a   Li, Dianwei ^a   Xiang, Yang ^a   Liu, Wei ^b   Mo, Xiumei ^b   Zhou, Qiang ^a  

^a THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DONGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; COLLAGEN; COMPLEX NETWORKS; GENE EXPRESSION; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NANOFIBERS; POROSITY; SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY); THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EXTRACELLULAR MATRICES; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRA REDS; INTERCONNECTED PORES; NANO-SCALE ORGANIZATION; SCAFFOLDING MATERIALS; SYNTHETIC BIODEGRADABLE POLYMERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D) STRUCTURES; TISSUE-ENGINEERING TECHNIQUES;

TENDONS;

COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COPOLYMER; MOLECULAR SCAFFOLD; POLY(L LACTIDE CO EPSILON CAPROLACTONE); POROUS POLYMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSPINNING; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOLECULAR SIZE; NANOFABRICATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TENDON; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE REGENERATION; TISSUE STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; COLLAGEN; MATERIALS TESTING; POLYESTERS; RABBITS; TENDONS; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 84888365395     PISSN: 19373384     EISSN: 19373392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tec.2012.0328     Document Type: Article

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