Ricky Unadkat: Growth by Stretching

Biomaterials Seminars Glasgow: PhD progress talk 

#BioMatSem @UoGCCE

24th May 2016

Ricky Unadkat
University of Glasgow (Mathis Riehle, Richard Burchmore, Andrew Hart)

More about Ricky: http://cceuog.co.uk



Papers mentioned in the talk:

Boccafoschi et al. Dynamic Fibroblast Cultures: Response to Mechanical Stretching. Cell Adh Migr. 2007 Jul-Sep; 1(3): 124–128.

Hinz et al. Mechanical Tension Controls Granulation Tissue Contractile Activity and Myofibroblast Differentiation. Am J Pathol. 2001 Sep; 159(3): 1009–1020.

doi: 10.1016/S0002-9440(10)61776-2

Hinz et al. Alpha-Smooth Muscle Actin ExpressionUpregulates Fibroblast Contractile Activity. Molecular Biology of the Cell Vol. 12, 2730 –2741, 2001

Wang et al. (2014) Enhancing mesenchymal stem cell response using uniaxially stretched poly(3-caprolactone) film micropatterns for vascular tissue engineering application J. Mater. Chem. B, 2014, 2, 5898.