Stem cell-derived vasculature: A potent and multidimensional technology for basic research, disease modeling, and tissue engineering

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 473, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 733-742

  Lowenthal, Justin ^a,b   Gerecht, Sharon ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^c Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood vessels; Embryonic stem cell; Endothelial cells; Induced pluripotent stem cell; Pluripotent stem cell; Smooth muscle; Stem cell; Stem cell therapy; Tissue engineered blood vessels; Tissue engineered vasculature; Vascular; Vascular biology; Vasculature

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; BASIC RESEARCH; CELL FUNCTION; CELL THERAPY; CYTOLOGY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; STEM CELL; STEM CELL DERIVED VASCULATURE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE LEVEL; VASCULAR BIOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL THERAPY; BLOOD VESSEL; CHEMISTRY; DISEASE MODEL; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; MICROCIRCULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE SCAFFOLD; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; WOUND HEALING;

BIOMATERIAL;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BLOOD VESSELS; CELL- AND TISSUE-BASED THERAPY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; MICROCIRCULATION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; STEM CELLS; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84951045736     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2015.09.127     Document Type: Short Survey

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