Generation of a three-dimensional full thickness skin equivalent and automated wounding

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 96, 2015, Pages

  Rossi, Angela ^a   Appelt Menzel, Antje ^a   Kurdyn, Szymon ^a   Walles, Heike ^a,b   Groeber, Florian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR INTERFACIAL ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY IGB   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D in vitro models; Alternative to animal testing; Automation; Bioengineering; Full thickness; Issue 96; Skin equivalent; Skin injury; Test system; Tissue engineering; Wound model; Wounding device

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 1; HYDROGEL;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CELL MOTION; CYTOLOGY; EPIDERMIS; FIBROBLAST; FUNCTIONS OF THE SKIN AND ITS APPENDAGES; HUMAN; HYDROGEL; INJURIES; KERATINOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SKIN; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; CELLS, CULTURED; COLLAGEN TYPE I; EPIDERMIS; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; HYDROGELS; KERATINOCYTES; RATS; SKIN; SKIN PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84923567251     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/52576     Document Type: Article

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