Micro-mold design controls the 3d morphological evolution of self-assembling multicellular microtissues

Tissue Engineering - Part A

Volumn 20, Issue 7-8, 2014, Pages 1134-1144

  Svoronos, Alexander A ^a,b   Tejavibulya, Nalin ^a,b   Schell, Jacquelyn Y ^a,b   Shenoy, Vivek B ^c   Morgan, Jeffrey R ^a,b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Brown University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION; CELL CULTURE; CONNECTING RODS; FIBROBLASTS; MOLDS; MORPHOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TISSUE;

CELL CONTRACTION; CELL-CELL ADHESION; HUMAN FIBROBLAST; MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES; MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; POINT OF RUPTURE; TISSUE MORPHOLOGY; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTORS;

TISSUE ENGINEERING;

TISSUE SCAFFOLD; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CELL VOLUME; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MORPHOLOGY; MOULD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF ASSEMBLING MULTICELLULAR MICROTISSUE; TENSION; TISSUE ENGINEERING; DEVICES; DRUG EFFECTS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; PROCEDURES;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

EID: 84898459014     PISSN: 19373341     EISSN: 1937335X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2013.0297     Document Type: Article

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