Bioengineered functional brain-like cortical tissue

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 38, 2014, Pages 13811-13816

  Tang Schomer, Min D ^a   White, James D ^a   Tien, Lee W ^a   Schmitt, L Ian ^b   Valentin, Thomas M ^a   Graziano, Daniel J ^a   Hopkins, Amy M ^a   Omenetto, Fiorenzo G ^a,c   Haydon, Philip G ^b   Kaplan, David L ^a  

^a Tufts University   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Electrophysiology; Scaffold; Silk; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INJURIES; CYTOLOGY; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PROCEDURES; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ANIMALS; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84907190392     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1324214111     Document Type: Article

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