Microstructural heterogeneity directs micromechanics and mechanobiology in native and engineered fibrocartilage

Nature Materials

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 477-484

  Han, Woojin M ^a   Heo, Su Jin ^a,b   Driscoll, Tristan P ^a,b   Delucca, John F ^c   McLeod, Claire M ^a,b   Smith, Lachlan J ^b   Duncan, Randall L ^c   Mauck, Robert L ^a,b   Elliott, Dawn M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTOLOGY; TISSUE REGENERATION;

ENGINEERED TISSUES; FIBROUS STRUCTURES; FUNCTION RELATIONSHIPS; HETEROGENEOUS TISSUES; INHOMOGENEOUS TISSUES; LOAD-BEARING TISSUES; MICRO-STRUCTURAL; MICROSTRUCTURAL HETEROGENEITY;

TISSUE;

PROTEOGLYCAN;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL; BOVINE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL CULTURE; CHONDROCYTE; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; FIBROCARTILAGE; HUMAN; MALE; MECHANICAL STRESS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MESENCHYMAL STROMA CELL; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; TISSUE ENGINEERING; WEIGHT BEARING;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CATTLE; CELLS, CULTURED; CHONDROCYTES; FEMALE; FIBROCARTILAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS; MIDDLE AGED; PROTEOGLYCANS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TISSUE ENGINEERING; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 84953333061     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat4520     Document Type: Article

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