Vasculogenic dynamics in 3D engineered tissue constructs

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Blinder, Yaron J ^a,c   Freiman, Alina ^a   Raindel, Noa ^a   Mooney, David J ^b,c   Levenberg, Shulamit ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCLEROPROTEIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2;

ANGIOGENESIS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-2;

EID: 84949603817     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep17840     Document Type: Article

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