Evaluation of perfusion-driven cell seeding of small diameter engineered tissue vascular grafts with a custom-designed seed-and-culture bioreactor

• Sarah K. Saunders,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, College of Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8467-973X

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• Sam Y. Cole,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, College of Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

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• Valeria Acuna Sierra,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9372-1824

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• Johane H. Bracamonte,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, College of Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

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• Stefano Toldo,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

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• Joao S. Soares

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jsoares@vcu.edu

  Affiliation Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, College of Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

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