Viability and neuronal differentiation of neural stem cells encapsulated in silk fibroin hydrogel functionalized with an IKVAV peptide

Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 1532-1541

  Sun, Wei ^a,b   Incitti, Tania ^a   Migliaresi, Claudio ^a,b   Quattrone, Alessandro ^a   Casarosa, Simona ^a,c   Motta, Antonella ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b European Institute of Excellence on Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

differentiation; encapsulation; hydrogel; neural stem cells; silk fibroin; sonication

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CELL ENGINEERING; COPYRIGHTS; CYTOLOGY; HYDROGELS; SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY); STEM CELLS; TISSUE;

CELL-BE; CELL/B.E; CELL/BE; DIFFERENTIATION; MODIFIED SILKS; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEURONAL DIFFERENTIATION; SILK FIBROIN; SILK FIBROIN HYDROGELS; TISSUES ENGINEERINGS;

PEPTIDES;

ISOLEUCYLLYSYLVALYLALANYLVALINE PEPTIDE; POLYPEPTIDE; SILK FIBROIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ISOLEUCYL-LYSYL-VALYL-ALANYL-VALINE; LAMININ; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; SILK;

ARTICLE; CELL ENCAPSULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEURITE OUTGROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; TISSUE ENGINEERING; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; HYDROGEL; IMMOBILIZED CELL; METABOLISM;

CELLS, IMMOBILIZED; HUMANS; HYDROGELS; LAMININ; NEURAL STEM CELLS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; SILK;

EID: 84930531567     PISSN: 19326254     EISSN: 19327005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/term.2053     Document Type: Article

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