Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine
Volume 6, Issue 2 , Pages 289-297 , April 2010

Effect of endothelium mimicking self-assembled nanomatrices on cell adhesion and spreading of human endothelial cells and smooth muscle cells

Received 27 March 2009 ,Accepted 10 September 2009.

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 This work was supported by the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation (H-W.J), grant T32EB004312 from the NIBIB (J.M.A.), and by a Caroline P. Ireland Research Scholarship (A.A., M.K.).

PII: S1549-9634(09)00187-7

doi: 10.1016/j.nano.2009.09.004

Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine
Volume 6, Issue 2 , Pages 289-297 , April 2010

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