Thickness-controllable electrospun fibers promote tubular structure formation by endothelial progenitor cells
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Thickness-controllable electrospun fibers promote tubular structure formation by endothelial progenitor cells
Controlling the thickness of an electrospun nanofibrous scaffold by altering its pore size has been shown to regulate cell behaviors such as cell infiltration into a three-dimensional (3D) scaffold. This is of great importance when manufacturing tissue-engineering scaffolds using an electrospinning process. In this study, we report the development of a novel process whereby additional aluminum ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Nanomedicine
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1178-2013
DOI: 10.2147/ijn.s73096