Polymeric scaffolds for tissue engineering applications

Tissue Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 113-130

  Yoon, Diana M ^a   Fisher, John P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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