Nano-fibrous scaffolds for tissue engineering.

By Laura A. Smith, Peter X. Ma. Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 2004

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Biomedical Engineering

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In Biomaterials

1. R. Vasita
2. D. Katti
3. P. Ma
4. M. Morshed
5. M. Prabhakaran
6. Mohammad Hossein Nasr-Esfahani
7. L. Ghasemi‐Mobarakeh
8. Valerie M. Weaver

In Biomedical Engineering

1. R. Vasita
2. D. Katti
3. Valerie M. Weaver
4. P. Ma
5. Seeram Ramakrishna
6. Yong Teng
7. Caleb Jensen
8. S. Hollister

Citations in the corpus

• The extracellular matrix at a glance (2010, background): “…such as peptideamphiphiles, assemble into secondary structures that recapitulate the collagen triple helix, and readily support stem cell growth and viability, and direct multicellular morphogenesis (Hauser and Zhang, 2010; Sieminski et al., 2008; Smith and Ma, 2004; Ulijn and Smith, 2008).”
• Electrospinning of Polymeric Nanofibers for Tissue Engineering Applications: A Review (2006, neutral): “61 64 Tissue engineering scaffolds function as temporary ECMs until repair or regeneration occurs.”
• Biomimetic materials for tissue engineering. (2008, background): “Beyond above-discussed simple units, PA molecules are known to self assemble into sheets, spheres, rods, disks or channels depending on the shape, charge, and environment in which they are placed [70,71].”
• Nanofibers and their applications in tissue engineering (2006, positive): “The high surface area and high porosity of electrospun nanofibers allow favorable cell interactions and hence make them potential candidates for tissue engineering applications (Li et al 2002; Smith and Ma 2004; Khil et al 2005; Ma et al 2005a).”
• Application of conductive polymers, scaffolds and electrical stimulation for nerve tissue engineering (2011, background): “Polymeric nanofibres can be processed by a number of techniques, such as drawing, template synthesis, phase separation, self-assembly and electrospinning (Ashammakhi et al., 2008; Smith and Ma, 2004).”
• Cell adhesion and proliferation enhancement by gelatin nanofiber scaffolds (2011, methodology): “Nanostructures such as nanoholes, nanoislands, nanofibers, and nanoparticles can be introduced to mimic the environment of ECM, regulating the physiology reaction, and promoting the cell adhesion, proliferation, and differentiation.(4,5) Among the various methods of preparing nanostructured scaffold”