Hybrid hydrogels containing vertically aligned carbon nanotubes with anisotropic electrical conductivity for muscle myofiber fabrication

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Ahadian, Samad ^a   Ramón Azcón, Javier ^a   Estili, Mehdi ^b   Liang, Xiaobin ^a   Ostrovidov, Serge ^a   Shiku, Hitoshi ^a   Ramalingam, Murugan ^a,c,d   Nakajima, Ken ^a   Sakka, Yoshio ^b   Bae, Hojae ^e   Matsue, Tomokazu ^a   Khademhosseini, Ali ^a,f,g,h,i  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c Centre for Stem Cell Research   (India)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^e Konkuk University   (South Korea)

^f BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ BK 21 Plus   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE; GELATIN; HYDROGEL; MUSCLE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ANISOTROPY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMISTRY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROPHORESIS; ELECTROSTIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HYDROGEL; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MYOBLAST; PROCEDURES; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHORESIS; GELATIN; GENE EXPRESSION; HYDROGELS; MICE; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MYOBLASTS; NANOTUBES, CARBON; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 84897876033     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep04271     Document Type: Article

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