| Literature DB >> 16522058 |
Ngan F Huang1, Shyam Patel, Rahul G Thakar, Jun Wu, Benjamin S Hsiao, Benjamin Chu, Randall J Lee, Song Li.
Abstract
Skeletal muscle consists of parallel bundles of myotubes formed by the fusion of myoblasts. We fabricated nanofibrous and micropatterned polymers as cell culture substrates to guide the morphogenesis of muscular tissue. The nanoscale and microscale topographic features regulate cell and cytoskeleton alignment, myotube assembly, myotube striation, and myoblast proliferation. This bottom-up approach from nanoscale to tissue level demonstrates the potential of nanofibrous polymers for engineering the assembly of cell and tissue structure.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID: 16522058 DOI: 10.1021/nl060060o
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nano Lett ISSN: 1530-6984 Impact factor: 11.189