Rational design of nanofiber scaffolds for orthopedic tissue repair and regeneration

Nanomedicine

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1459-1481

  Ma, Bing ^a   Xie, Jingwei ^a   Jiang, Jiang ^a   Shuler, Franklin D ^b   Bartlett, David E ^a  

^a MARSHALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MARSHALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

design; electrospinning; nanofiber scaffold; orthopedic tissue; regeneration; repair; tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR SCAFFOLD; NANOFIBER;

ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; ELECTROSPINNING; ELECTROSPINNING DEVICE; HUMAN; MEDICAL DEVICE; ORTHOPEDICS; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TENDON; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE REGENERATION; TISSUE REPAIR; NANOTECHNOLOGY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PHYSIOLOGY; REGENERATION; TISSUE SCAFFOLD; WOUND HEALING;

HUMANS; NANOFIBERS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; REGENERATION; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84893191396     PISSN: 17435889     EISSN: 17486963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/nnm.13.132     Document Type: Review

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