Injectable, biodegradable hydrogels for tissue engineering applications

Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1746-1767

  Tan, Huaping ^a   Marra, Kacey G ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodegradation; Biomaterials; Injectable hydrogels; Regeneration medicine; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADABLE HYDROGELS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRICES; INJECTABLE HYDROGELS; REGENERATION MEDICINE; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; SCAFFOLDS FOR TISSUE ENGINEERING; SOFT TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS;

APPLICATIONS; BIODEGRADATION; BIOMATERIALS; HYDROGELS; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

EID: 84888405143     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma3031746     Document Type: Article

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