Cardiac meets skeletal: What's new in microfluidic models for muscle tissue engineering

Molecules

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Visone, Roberta ^a   Gilardi, Mara ^b,c   Marsano, Anna ^d   Rasponi, Marco ^a   Bersini, Simone ^b   Moretti, Matteo ^b,e,f,g  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b IRCCS ISTITUTO ORTOPEDICO GALEAZZI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^e REGIONAL HOSPITAL OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

^f Swiss Institute of Regenerative Medicine (SIRM)   (Switzerland)

^g DIVISION OF CARDIOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cardiac muscle; Electrical stimulation; Heart; In vitro 3D model; Mechanical stimulation; Microfluidic; Organ on a chip; Skeletal muscle

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CARDIAC MUSCLE; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; LAB ON A CHIP; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; LAB-ON-A-CHIP DEVICES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOCARDIUM; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84987875337     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14203049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/molecules21091128     Document Type: Review

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