Polyurethane-based scaffolds for myocardial tissue engineering

Interface Focus

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Chiono, Valeria ^a   Mozetic, Pamela ^b   Boffito, Monica ^a   Sartori, Susanna ^a   Gioffredi, Emilia ^a   Silvestri, Antonella ^a   Rainer, Alberto ^b   Giannitelli, Sara Maria ^b   Trombetta, Marcella ^b   Nurzynska, Daria ^c   Di Meglio, Franca ^c   Castaldo, Clotilde ^c   Miraglia, Rita ^c   Montagnani, Stefania ^c   Ciardelli, Gianluca ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Additive manufacturing; Cardiac progenitor cells; Myocardial tissue engineering; Polyurethane

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890903518     PISSN: 20428898     EISSN: 20428901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2013.0045     Document Type: Article

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