Bio-inspired micropatterned hydrogel to direct and deconstruct hierarchical processing of geometry-force signals by human mesenchymal stem cells during smooth muscle cell differentiation

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Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Tay, Chor Yong ^a   Wu, Yun Long ^b   Cai, Pingqiang ^c   Tan, Nguan Soon ^d,e   Venkatraman, Subbu S ^c   Chen, Xiaodong ^c   Tan, Lay Poh ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^e INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; BIOMIMETICS; CELL CULTURE; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; DESIGN; GEOMETRY; HYDROGELS; MUSCLE; PROTEINS;

HIERARCHICAL PROCESSING; HUMAN MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS; HUMAN MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS (HMSCS); PHYSIOLOGICAL REGULATORS; POLYACRYLAMIDE HYDROGELS; REGULATORY LIGHT CHAINS; SMOOTH MUSCLE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; TISSUE ENGINEERED VASCULAR GRAFTS;

STEM CELLS;

EID: 84953731546     PISSN: 18844049     EISSN: 18844057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/am.2015.66     Document Type: Article

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