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Hydrogels with Tunable Properties

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Cartilage Tissue Engineering

Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology ((MIMB,volume 1340))

Abstract

This chapter describes the preparation of tissue engineered constructs by immobilizing chondrocytes in hydrogel with independently tunable porosity and mechanical properties. This chapter also presents the methods to characterize these tissue engineered constructs. The resulting tissue engineered constructs can be useful for the generation of cartilage tissue both in vitro and in vivo.

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Acknowledgements

Funding for this work was partly provided through Australian Research Council Discovery Grant DP 120102570. This work was performed in part at the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication (MCN) which comprises the Victorian Node of the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF). P.P.Y. Chan is grateful for an MCN Technology Fellowship.

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  1. Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Melbourne, VIC, 3122, Australia

    Peggy P. Y. Chan

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Chan, P.P.Y. (2015). Hydrogels with Tunable Properties. In: Doran, P. (eds) Cartilage Tissue Engineering. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1340. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2938-2_8

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