Printing of Three-Dimensional Tissue Analogs for Regenerative Medicine

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 115-131

  Lee, Vivian K ^a,b   Dai, Guohao ^a,b  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

3 D tissue model; Cell printing; Regenerative medicine; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMATERIALS; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMIMETIC PROCESSES; BIOMIMETICS; CELL ENGINEERING; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PATIENT REHABILITATION; PRINTING; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

3-D TISSUES; BIOMATERIAL SCAFFOLDS; CELL PRINTING; ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; EXTRACELLULAR MATRICES; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D); TISSUE ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS;

SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

BIOMATERIAL;

BIOPRINTING; BONE TISSUE; CARTILAGE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HEART TISSUE; HEART VALVE; HUMAN; LASER DIRECT WRITING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; REVIEW; SKIN; STEREOLITHOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL PRINTING; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TUMOR MODEL; VASCULARIZATION; WRITING SYSTEM; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; PROCEDURES; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ANIMALS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMANS; PRINTING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 84962858637     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-016-1613-7     Document Type: Review

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