Hydrostatic pressure under hypoxia facilitates fabrication of tissue-engineered vascular grafts derived from human vascular smooth muscle cells in vitro
Tomoyuki Kojima, Takashi Nakamura, Junichi Saito, Yuko Hidaka, Taisuke Akimoto, Hana Inoue, Christian Nanga Chick, Toyonobu Usuki, Makoto Kaneko, Etsuko Miyagi, Yoshihiro Ishikawa, Utako Yokoyama
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Vascular smooth muscleExtracellular matrixTissue engineeringMaterials scienceBiomedical engineeringFibronectinElastinHydrostatic pressureCellAnatomyCell biologyPathologyChemistryMedicineBiologySmooth muscleBiochemistryInternal medicinePhysicsThermodynamicsTissue Engineering and Regenerative MedicineElectrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical ApplicationsConnective tissue disorders research