Advancing towards a tissue-engineered tympanic membrane: Silk fibroin as a substratum for growing human eardrum keratinocytes

Human tympanic membrane cells (hTMCs), harvested from tympanic membrane (TM) explants, were grown in culture and then seeded on membranes prepared from silkworm (Bombyx mori) silk fibroin (BMSF) and on tissue-culture plastic membranes (PET). Fibroin was isolated from silk cast into membranes with a...

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Main Authors: Ghassemifar, Reza, Redmond, S., Zainuddin, Chirila, T.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Sage Publications 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/34502