Biocompatible carbon nanotube-chitosan scaffold matching the electrical conductivity of the heart

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 9822-9832

  Pok, Seokwon ^a   Vitale, Flavia ^a   Eichmann, Shannon L ^a   Benavides, Omar M ^a   Pasquali, Matteo ^a   Jacot, Jeffrey G ^a,b  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

action potential; carbon nanotubes; cardiomyocytes; conduction velocity; heart defects; tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CARBON NANOTUBES; CHITOSAN; DEFECTS; HEART; NANOTUBES; REPAIR; SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY); SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; CARDIOMYOCYTES; CONDUCTION VELOCITY; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL COUPLING; HEART DEFECTS; TETRALOGY OF FALLOT; VENTRICULAR SEPTAL DEFECT;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

BIOMATERIAL; CARBON NANOTUBE;

ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; HEART; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; HEART; HUMANS; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; NANOTUBES, CARBON; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84908406998     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn503693h     Document Type: Article

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