Building an anisotropic meniscus with zonal variations

Tissue Engineering - Part A

Volumn 20, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 294-302

  Higashioka, Michael M ^a   Chen, Justin A ^a,b   Hu, Jerry C ^a   Athanasiou, Kyriacos A ^a,c  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY FLUIDS; ELASTIC MODULI; SELF ASSEMBLY;

ANISOTROPIC BEHAVIORS; BIOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES; CELL SEEDING; CHONDROCYTES; KNEE MENISCUS; RELAXATION MODULUS; SELF-ASSEMBLING PROCESS; ZONAL VARIATIONS;

ANISOTROPY;

COLLAGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BIOMECHANICS; CARTILAGE CELL; CARTILAGINOUS TISSUE; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; KNEE FUNCTION; KNEE MENISCUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TENSILE STRENGTH; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; CATTLE; COLLAGEN; ELASTIC MODULUS; MATERIALS TESTING; MENISCI, TIBIAL; RABBITS; STAINING AND LABELING; TENSILE STRENGTH; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 84891545053     PISSN: 19373341     EISSN: 1937335X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2013.0098     Document Type: Article

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