Study of Cell Material Interactions for Vascular Tissue Engineering Application

In the US alone, more than 500,000 coronary artery bypass procedures are performed annually. Tissue engineering shows the potential to construct functional grafts to overcome the limited availability of autologous saphenous veins, relatively poor elasticity and low compliance of synthetic materials...

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Main Author: Qu, Xin
Other Authors: Hahn, Mariah
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-05-9298