Engineering the heart: Evaluation of conductive nanomaterials for improving implant integration and cardiac function

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Zhou, Jin ^a   Chen, Jun ^b   Sun, Hongyu ^a   Qiu, Xiaozhong ^c   Mou, Yongchao ^a   Liu, Zhiqiang ^a   Zhao, Yuwei ^a   Li, Xia ^a   Han, Yao ^a   Duan, Cuimi ^a   Tang, Rongyu ^a   Wang, Chunlan ^a   Zhong, Wen ^d   Liu, Jie ^e   Luo, Ying ^e   Xing, Malcolm Mengqiu ^b   Wang, Changyong ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c SOUTHERN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Faculty of Medicine   (Canada)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL; CARBON NANOTUBE; GELATIN; HYDROGEL; NANOMATERIAL;

ANIMAL; CARDIAC MUSCLE; CHEMISTRY; DISEASE MODEL; HEART; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HYDROGEL; MALE; MATERIALS TESTING; METABOLISM; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; RAT; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GELATIN; HEART; HYDROGEL; MALE; MATERIALS TESTING; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIUM; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RATS; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84892705265     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03733     Document Type: Article

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