Contact guidance

Control of surfaces Artificial surfaces, adhesive Artificial surfaces, nonadhesive Artificial surfaces, regulated Biocompatible surfaces Biofilm suppression Engineered surfaces Pattern surfaces (contact guidance) Thin-film coatings Nanopores... 

Teixeira Al, Abrams GA, Bertics PJ, Murphy CJ, Nealey PF. Epithelial contact guidance on well-defined micro- and nanostructured substrates. J Cell Sci 2003 116 1881-92. 

Keywords Characterization Contact guidance Regeneration Scaffold Tissue engineering... 

Newgreen, D.F. (1989) Physical influences on neural crest cell migration in avian embryos contact guidance and spatial restriction. Dev. Biol. 131 136-148. 

Contact guidance The theory by which cells attach to and migrate on substrates of specific microstructure and topographic orientation. The abflity of the ceU to attach and migrate on a substrate is related to the cytoskeletal and attachment molecules present on the ceU membrane. 

J. Meyle, K. Giiltig, W. Nisch, Variation in contact guidance by human cells on a microstructured surface, J. Biomed. Mater. Res. 29 (1995) 81-88. 

Laco F, Grant MH, Black RA (2013) Collagen-nanofiber hydrogel composites promote contact guidance of human lymphatic microvascular endothelial cells and directed capillary tube formation. J Biomed Matiu Res A 101 1787-1799... 

Wilkinson PC, Lackie JM (1983) The influence of contact guidance on chemotaxis of human neutrophil leukocytes. Exp Cell Res 145 255-264... 

Orientation In the particular case of nerve guide substitutes engineering, orientation of fibers rightly scaled in a parallel distribution have shown to guide axon extension and Schwann cell growth by contact guidance on the surface without infiltration into the inner network while random fibrous mesh are infiltrated. 

Rajnicek AM, McCaig CD. Contact guidance of CNS neurites on grooved quartz influence of groove dimensions, neuronal age and cell type. J Cell Sci 1997 110 2915-24. 

Manwaring, M.E., Walsh, J.F., and Tresco, RA., Contact guidance induced orientation of extracellular matrix. Biomaterials 25, 3631, 2004. 

Nakatsuji, N. and Johnson, K.E., Experimental manipulation of a contact guidance system in amphibian gastrulation by mechanical tension. Nature, 1984,307 453-455. 

Ohara, P.T. and Buck, R.C., Contact guidance in vitro. A Ught, transmission, and scanning electron microscopic study, Exp. Cell Res. 121,235-249,1979. 

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