Advances in on-chip vascularization

Regenerative Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 285-302

  Haase, Kristina ^a   Kamm, Roger D ^a,b  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b SINGAPORE MIT ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

angiogenesis; microfluidics; microvasculature; organ on a chip; permeability; regenerative medicine; tissue engineering; vasculogenesis

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR SCAFFOLD; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; CELL CONTACT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; ELECTROSPINNING; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; HYDROGEL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MECHANICAL CONTROL; MICROENVIRONMENT CONTROL; MICROFLUIDICS; MICROVASCULATURE; NONHUMAN; ON CHIP VASCULARIZATION; PERMEABILITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SMOOTH MUSCLE CELL; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE PERFUSION; TISSUE REGENERATION; VASCULARIZATION; ANIMAL; LAB ON A CHIP; METABOLISM; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ANIMALS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HUMANS; LAB-ON-A-CHIP DEVICES; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; NEOPLASMS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC;

EID: 85019659161     PISSN: 17460751     EISSN: 1746076X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/rme-2016-0152     Document Type: Review

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