High-throughput microfluidic platform for 3D cultures of mesenchymal stem cells, towards engineering developmental processes

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Occhetta, Paola ^a,b   Centola, Matteo ^b,c   Tonnarelli, Beatrice ^b   Redaelli, Alberto ^a   Martin, Ivan ^b   Rasponi, Marco ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 2; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA3; WNT3A PROTEIN;

CELL CULTURE; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOLOGY; DEVICES; DRUG EFFECTS; HUMAN; MESENCHYMAL STROMA CELL; METABOLISM; MICROFLUIDICS; PROCEDURES; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; COLLAGEN TYPE II; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; HUMANS; MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS; MICROFLUIDICS; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA3; WNT3A PROTEIN;

EID: 84929991052     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep10288     Document Type: Article

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