Assembly of complex cell microenvironments using geometrically docked hydrogel shapes
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Assembly of complex cell microenvironments using geometrically docked hydrogel shapes.
Cellular communities in living tissues act in concert to establish intricate microenvironments, with complexity difficult to recapitulate in vitro. We report a method for docking numerous cellularized hydrogel shapes (100-1,000 µm in size) into hydrogel templates to construct 3D cellular microenvironments. Each shape can be uniquely designed to contain customizable concentrations of cells and m...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1300569110