Blends and nanocomposite biomaterials for articular cartilage tissue engineering

Materials

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 5327-5355

  Doulabi, Azadehsadat Hashemi ^a   Mequanint, Kibret ^b   Mohammadi, Hadi ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Articular cartilage; Biomaterial; Blend; Nanocomposite; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIALS; BLENDING; CARTILAGE; NANOCOMPOSITES; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ARTICULAR CARTILAGES; CELL RESPONSE; COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT; NANOCOMPOSITE SYSTEMS;

TISSUE;

EID: 84904887337     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma7075327     Document Type: Article

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