Engineering three-dimensional cardiac microtissues for potential drug screening applications

Current Medicinal Chemistry

Volumn 21, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 2497-2509

  Wang, L ^a   Huang, G ^a   Sha, B ^a,b   Wang, S ^c   Han, Y L ^a   Wu, J ^d   Li, Y ^e   Du, Y ^f   Lu, T J ^a   Xu, F ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XI'AN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e CHINA ASTRONAUT RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTER   (China)

^f Tsinghua University   (China)

Author keywords

Bioprinting; Cardiac microtissues; Cell encapsulation; Cell microenvironment; Drug screening; High throughput; Hydrogels; Stem cells; Three dimensional; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR AGENT;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOPRINTING; CELL CULTURE; COCULTURE; DRUG SCREENING; HEART; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; HYDROGEL; MICROENVIRONMENT; MICROFLUIDICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL CARDIAC MICROTISSUE; TISSUE CULTURE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; PHYSIOLOGY; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; HEART; HUMANS; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84901922975     PISSN: 09298673     EISSN: 1875533X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/0929867321666131212152408     Document Type: Article

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