Tissue Engineering

UV-embossed micropattern scaffolds control cell shape and muscle cell orientation

Published in Blood Weekly, July 6th, 2006

Ultra violet-embossed micropattern scaffolds control cell shape and muscle cell orientation which is needed in vascular and muscle tissue engineering.

"This article shows that ultra violet (UV) micro-embossing can be successfully used for fabricating biocompatible micropatterned films with microchannels separated by high aspect ratio microwalls.

"Eight series of micropatterns were investigated; the width of the microwall was either 10 or 25 mcm and that of the microchannel either 40, 80, 120, or 160 mcm," investigators in Singapore report.

According to J.Y. Shen and colleagues at the School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering in...

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