Skeletal muscle tissue engineering: Methods to form skeletal myotubes and their applications

Tissue Engineering - Part B: Reviews

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 403-436

  Ostrovidov, Serge ^a   Hosseini, Vahid ^b   Ahadian, Samad ^a   Fujie, Toshinori ^a,c   Parthiban, Selvakumar Prakash ^a   Ramalingam, Murugan ^a,d,e   Bae, Hojae ^f   Kaji, Hirokazu ^a   Khademhosseini, Ali ^a,g,h,i,j,k  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^e CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^f Konkuk University   (South Korea)

^g Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

^h BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

ⁱ MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^j HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTOLOGY; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

CO-CULTURE SYSTEM; FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; MUSCLE TISSUES; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SKELETAL MUSCLE CELLS; TECHNICAL ASPECTS; TRAUMATIC INJURY; TUMOR ABLATION;

MUSCLE;

GROWTH FACTOR; PROTEIN;

BIOSYNTHESIS; BONE TISSUE; CELL ADHESION; CELL ALIGNMENT; CELL CONTACT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURFACE; CELLULAR PARAMETERS; COCULTURE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MUSCLE ANABOLISM; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE GROWTH; MYOBLAST; MYOTUBE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; REVIEW; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SKELETAL MUSCLE CELL; SKELETAL MUSCLE TISSUE; SKELETAL MUSCLE TISSUE ENGINEERING; STEM CELL; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUES; TRANSVERSE TUBULAR SYSTEM; CYTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; MYOBLASTS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84901450772     PISSN: 19373368     EISSN: 19373376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.teb.2013.0534     Document Type: Review

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