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01-12-2015 | Meeting abstract
Carbon nanotubes: a promising tissue engineering approach for in vitro cultivation & differentiation of primary canine articular chondrocytes
Authors:
Brigitta Matta-Domjan, Alice King, Mazhar Ajaz, Csaba Matta, Rebecca Lewis, Hugo Macedo, Roberto La Ragione, Eirini Velliou, Alan Dalton
Published in:
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
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Special Issue 1/2015
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Excerpt
Development of biocompatible materials has great potential in biomedical engineering both for in vitro studies as well as for in vivo applications. Two- and three-dimensional carbon nanotube (CNT) substrates imitating and providing an extracellular matrix-like structure are promising constructs as cell-supporting scaffolds. Lately, they have received considerable interest in tissue engineering; however, cellular responses to nanoscale stimuli need to be better understood. …