3D printing of scaffold for cells delivery: Advances in skin tissue engineering

Polymers

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Singh, Deepti ^b   Singh, Dolly ^a   Han, Sung Soo ^a  

^a Yeungnam University   (South Korea)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

3D bioprinting; Biomaterials; Cell matrix interaction; Laser assisted bioprinting; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

3D PRINTERS; BIOMATERIALS; CELL ENGINEERING; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; PRINTING; PROTEINS; STEM CELLS; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

BIOMATERIALS PROCESSING; BIOPRINTING; CELL MATRIX INTERACTIONS; ENGINEERED BIOMATERIALS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRICES; EXTRACELLULAR PROTEINS; SKIN TISSUE ENGINEERING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) CONSTRUCT;

SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

EID: 84956692978     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/polym8010019     Document Type: Review

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