Engineering Cellular Microenvironments with Photo- and Enzymatically Responsive Hydrogels: Toward Biomimetic 3D Cell Culture Models

Accounts of Chemical Research

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 703-713

  Tam, Roger Y ^a   Smith, Laura J ^a,b   Shoichet, Molly S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CELL ENGINEERING; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; HYDROGEL; METABOLISM; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALS; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL ENGINEERING; CELLULAR MICROENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; HYDROGELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTOCHEMICAL PROCESSES;

EID: 85018492801     PISSN: 00014842     EISSN: 15204898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.6b00543     Document Type: Article

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