May 18, 2007
Author(s)
Kavita Jeerage, Stephanie M. LaNasa, Damian S. Lauria, Stephanie J. Bryant, Andrew Slifka
Cardiomyocytes, the beating cells of the heart, are highly dependent on oxygen for survival and function. Early work in cardiac muscle tissue engineering revealed that cardiomyocytes only survived within 150 microns of the scaffold's edge due to