Microfeature guided skeletal muscle tissue engineering for highly organized 3-dimensional free-standing constructs.

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Summary

This paper presents a method for creating highly ordered tissue-only constructs by using rigid microtopographically patterned surfaces to first guide myoblast alignment, followed by transfer of aligned myotubes into a degradable hydrogel and self-organization of the ordered cells into a functional, 3-dimensional, free-standing construct independent of the initial template substrate.

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article
Published
2009-02-01
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Myogenesis, Tissue engineering, Materials science, Skeletal muscle, Biomedical engineering

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