Biofabrication strategies for tissue engineering

Computational Methods in Applied Sciences

Volumn 20, Issue , 2011, Pages 137-176

  Bártolo, Paulo Jorge ^a   Domingos, Marco ^a   Patrício, Tatiana ^a   Cometa, Stefania ^b   Mironov, Vladimir ^c  

^a POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF LEIRIA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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EID: 84964265727     PISSN: 18713033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-1254-6_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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