Biocompatible Coating of Encapsulated Cells Using Ionotropic Gelation

The technique of immunoisolated transplantation has seen in the last twenty years improvements in biocompatibility, long term stability and methods for avoidance of fibrosis in alginate capsules. However, two major problems are not yet solved: living cellular material that is not centered in the cap...

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Main Authors: Ehrhart, Friederike, Mettler, Esther, Böse, Thomas, Weber, Matthias Max, Vásquez, Julio Alberto, Zimmermann, Heiko
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3767676/