A tunable synthetic hydrogel system for culture of retinal ganglion cells and amacrine cells

Acta Biomaterialia

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 7622-7629

  Hertz, Jonathan ^a,b   Robinson, Rebecca ^c   Valenzuela, Daniel A ^a   Lavik, Erin B ^d   Goldberg, Jeffrey L ^a,b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Yale University   (United States)

^d Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

ECM (extracellular matrix); Elasticity; Protein adsorption; Retina

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BIOMECHANICS; CELL CULTURE; CELLS; HYDROGELS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEMS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRICES; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HYDROGEL SYSTEM; IN-VIVO; LOCAL ENVIRONMENTS; PROTEIN ADSORPTION; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; TUNABLES;

NEURONS;

MACROGOL; MOLECULAR SCAFFOLD; POLYLYSINE; MACROGOL DERIVATIVE; HYDROGEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; HYDROGEL; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVOUS TISSUE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TISSUE ENGINEERING; YOUNG MODULUS; ANIMAL; BATCH CELL CULTURE; CAT; CELL CULTURE; CHEMISTRY; COCULTURE; CYTOLOGY; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

AMACRINE CELLS; ANIMALS; BATCH CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CATS; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; HYDROGELS; MATERIALS TESTING; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; POLYLYSINE; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84891698654     PISSN: 17427061     EISSN: 18787568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2013.04.048     Document Type: Article

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