Engineering Contractile 2D and 3D Human Skeletal and Cardiac Muscle Microtissues

Skeletal and cardiac muscles are crucial biological actuators with limited capacity to repair themselves after significant trauma or disease states. Engineering these complex tissues using human derived cells has potential applications to serve as more physiologically relevant and economical test be...

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Main Author: Duffy, Rebecca Marie
Format: Others
Published: Research Showcase @ CMU 2016
Online Access:http://repository.cmu.edu/dissertations/689
http://repository.cmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1728&context=dissertations