Microfabrication of scaffold-free tissue strands for three-dimensional tissue engineering

Biofabrication

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Akkouch, Adil ^a   Yu, Yin ^a   Ozbolat, Ibrahim T ^a,b,c,d  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cell aggregation; micro fabrication; mini tissue building blocks; tissue strands

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; BIOMECHANICS; CELL CULTURE; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; FABRICATION; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; SELF ASSEMBLY; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

BUILDING BLOCKES; CELL AGGREGATES; CELL AGGREGATION; COMPLEX TISSUES; DERMAL FIBROBLASTS; MICRO-INJECTION; SELF-ASSEMBLING; WELL-DEFINED MORPHOLOGIES;

SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES; RAT; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELLS, CULTURED; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; RATS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84945237438     PISSN: 17585082     EISSN: 17585090     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1758-5090/7/3/031002     Document Type: Article

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