Ovine Carotid Artery-Derived Cells as an Optimized Supportive Cell Layer in 2-D Capillary Network Assays

• Stefan Weinandy ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Stefan Weinandy, Patrick Babczyk

  Affiliation Department of Tissue Engineering & Textile Implants, AME - Helmholtz Institute for Biomedical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

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• Patrick Babczyk ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Stefan Weinandy, Patrick Babczyk

  Affiliation Department of Tissue Engineering & Textile Implants, AME - Helmholtz Institute for Biomedical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

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• Agnieszka Dreier,

  Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

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• Ronald E. Unger,

  Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany

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• Thomas C. Flanagan,

  Affiliation School of Medicine & Medical Science, Health Sciences Centre, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

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• C. James Kirkpatrick,

  Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany

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• Martin Zenke,

  Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Institute for Biomedical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

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• Doris Klee,

  Affiliation Institute of Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry (ITMC), RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

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• Stefan Jockenhoevel

  * E-mail: jockenhoevel@hia.rwth-aachen.de

  Affiliation Department of Tissue Engineering & Textile Implants, AME - Helmholtz Institute for Biomedical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

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