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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Pena B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5672802 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
ACS applied materials & interfaces 20170912 37
The ability of the adult heart to regenerate cardiomyocytes (CMs) lost after injury is limited, generating interest in developing efficient cell-based transplantation therapies. Rigid carbon nanotubes (CNTs) scaffolds have been used to improve CMs viability, proliferation, and maturation, but they require undesirable invasive surgeries for implantation. To overcome this limitation, we developed an injectable reverse thermal gel (RTG) functionalized with CNTs (RTG-CNT) that transitions from a sol ...[more]