The crucial role of mechanical heterogeneity in regulating follicle development and ovulation with engineered ovarian microtissue

Biomaterials

Volumn 35, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 5122-5128

  Choi, Jung Kyu ^a,b   Agarwal, Pranay ^a,b   Huang, Haishui ^a,b   Zhao, Shuting ^a,b   He, Xiaoming ^a,b,c  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alginate; Follicle; Mechanobiology; Microfluidic; Microtissue; Ovulation

Indexed keywords

ALGINATE; MAMMALS; MICROFLUIDICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTORS; FOLLICLE; FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; MECHANICAL HETEROGENEITY; MECHANO-BIOLOGY; MICROFLUIDIC TECHNOLOGIES; MICROTISSUE; OVULATION;

BIOMIMETIC PROCESSES;

ALGINIC ACID; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; COLLAGEN; DIVALENT CATION; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; SERPENTINE; GLUCURONIC ACID; HEXURONIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMIMETICS; CROSS LINKING; CUMULUS CELL; CUMULUS OOCYTE COMPLEX; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GRANULOSA CELL; HYDROGEL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MECHANICAL HETEROGENEITY; MICROCAPSULE; MICROFLUIDICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARIAN MICROTISSUE; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; METABOLISM; OVARY FOLLICLE; PEROMYSCUS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

MAMMALIA;

ALGINATES; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GLUCURONIC ACID; HEXURONIC ACIDS; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVARY; OVULATION; PEROMYSCUS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84898419600     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: 18785905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2014.03.028     Document Type: Article

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