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Advancing towards a tissue-engineered tympanic membrane: silk fibroin as a substratum for growing human eardrum keratinocytes.
Journal of biomaterials applications - 1 Mar 2010
Ghassemifar Reza, Redmond Sharon, Zainuddin, Chirila Traian V
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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 thickness of 10-15 microm. The hTMCs were cultured on both materials for 15 days in a serum-containing culture...
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