Stiffness-matched biomaterial implants for cell delivery: clinical, intraoperative ultrasound elastography provides a ‘target’ stiffness for hydrogel synthesis in spinal cord injury
Safe hydrogel delivery requires stiffness-matching with host tissues to avoid iatrogenic damage and reduce inflammatory reactions. Hydrogel-encapsulated cell delivery is a promising combinatorial approach to spinal cord injury therapy, but a lack of in vivo clinical spinal cord injury stiffness meas...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2020-07-01
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| Series: | Journal of Tissue Engineering |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2041731420934806 |