{"title":"Cell Adhesion to RGD-Alginate Is Modulated by Substrate Mechanics","authors":"N. Genes, Matthew D. Silva, C. Sotak, L. Bonassar","doi":"10.1115/imece2001/bed-23016","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n Alginate in solution is crosslinked in the presence of multivalent cations, making it a useful polymer for drug delivery and tissue engineering. The degree of crosslinking depends on the concentration (Rowley 2000) and chemical identity of the crosslinker (Seely 1974).","PeriodicalId":7238,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Bioengineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2001-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Advances in Bioengineering","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1115/imece2001/bed-23016","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Alginate in solution is crosslinked in the presence of multivalent cations, making it a useful polymer for drug delivery and tissue engineering. The degree of crosslinking depends on the concentration (Rowley 2000) and chemical identity of the crosslinker (Seely 1974).