Oriented Collagen Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering

Oriented collagen scaffolds were developed in the form of sheet, mesh and tube by arraying flow-oriented collagen string gels and dehydrating the arrayed gels. The developed collagen scaffolds can be any practical size with any direction of orientation for tissue engineering applications. The birefr...

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Main Authors: Shohta Kodama, Taro Saku, Hiroshi Mikami, Go Kuwahara, Toru Kosaka, Yoshihiro Isobe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2012-03-01
Series:Materials
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/5/3/501/