Thermoresponsive Copolypeptide Hydrogel Vehicles for Central Nervous System Cell Delivery

ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 705-717

  Zhang, Shanshan ^a   Burda, Joshua E ^b   Anderson, Mark A ^b   Zhao, Ziru ^b   Ao, Yan ^b   Cheng, Yin ^b   Sun, Yi ^b   Deming, Timothy J ^a,c   Sofroniew, Michael V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Engineering IV   (United States)

Author keywords

biomaterials; brain; drug delivery; hydrogel; neural stem cells; spinal cord; transplantation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL SEPARATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL SUSPENSION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIBLOCK COPOLYPEPTIDE HYDROGEL; EMBRYO; HOST CELL; HYDROGEL; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; IN VIVO STUDY; INVESTIGATIVE PROCEDURES; MOUSE; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PERIMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; ROOM TEMPERATURE; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84969257207     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23739878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.5b00153     Document Type: Article

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