Growing tissues in real and simulated microgravity: New methods for tissue engineering

Tissue Engineering - Part B: Reviews

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 555-566

  Grimm, Daniela ^a   Wehland, Markus ^b   Pietsch, Jessica ^b   Aleshcheva, Ganna ^b   Wise, Petra ^c   Van Loon, Jack ^d   Ulbrich, Claudia ^e   Magnusson, Nils E ^a   Infanger, Manfred ^b   Bauer, Johann ^f  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIATION MEDICINE; CELL ENGINEERING; DISEASES; EARTH (PLANET); HISTOLOGY; MICROGRAVITY; MICROGRAVITY PROCESSING; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC DRUGS; MULTICELLULAR STRUCTURE; PHARMACOLOGICAL TESTING; REGENERATED CARTILAGE; ROTATING WALL VESSEL BIOREACTORS; SIMULATED MICROGRAVITY; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D); TISSUE ENGINEERED CONSTRUCTS;

TISSUE;

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITOR;

ANGIOGENESIS; CARCINOGENESIS; CARTILAGE; CELL STRUCTURE; COCULTURE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FAST ROTATING CLINOSTAT; GENERAL DEVICE; HUMAN; MICROGRAVITY; RANDOM POSITIONING MACHINE; REVIEW; ROTATING WALL VESSEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THYROID GLAND; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE GROWTH; TUMOR SPHEROID; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CYTOLOGY; DEVICES; MULTICELLULAR SPHEROID; PROCEDURES; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR; TISSUE ENGINEERING; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

EID: 84904812043     PISSN: 19373368     EISSN: 19373376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.teb.2013.0704     Document Type: Review

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