Rebuilding Brain Circuitry with Living Micro-Tissue Engineered Neural Networks

Tissue Engineering - Part A

Volumn 21, Issue 21-22, 2015, Pages 2744-2756

  Struzyna, Laura A ^a,b,c   Wolf, John A ^a,b   Mietus, Constance J ^a   Adewole, Dayo O ^a,b,c   Chen, H Isaac ^a,b   Smith, Douglas H ^a   Cullen, D Kacy ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NEURAL NETWORKS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; TISSUE;

AXONAL PATHFINDING; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEMS; DORSAL ROOT GANGLIA; EXTRACELLULAR MATRICES; MINIMALLY INVASIVE; NEURONAL POPULATIONS; NEURONAL SURVIVAL; TUBULAR CONSTRUCTS;

NEURONS;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL ROOT; EMBRYO; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GANGLION; MALE; MICRO TISSUE ENGINEERED NEURAL NETWORK; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TISSUE ENGINEERING; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; DEVICES; NERVE CELL; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROSURGERY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SURGERY; TISSUE REGENERATION; TISSUE SCAFFOLD; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELLS, CULTURED; GUIDED TISSUE REGENERATION; MALE; NERVE NET; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURONS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84946897827     PISSN: 19373341     EISSN: 1937335X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2014.0557     Document Type: Article

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