Noninvasive metabolic imaging of engineered 3D human adipose tissue in a perfusion bioreactor.

The efficacy and economy of most in vitro human models used in research is limited by the lack of a physiologically-relevant three-dimensional perfused environment and the inability to noninvasively quantify the structural and biochemical characteristics of the tissue. The goal of this project was t...

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Main Authors: Andrew Ward, Kyle P Quinn, Evangelia Bellas, Irene Georgakoudi, David L Kaplan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3566027?pdf=render