Kibret Mequanint

Synthesis, swelling behavior, and biocompatibility of novel physically cross-linked polyurethane-block-poly(glycerol methacrylate) hydrogels.

Elastin biosynthesis: The missing link in tissue-engineered blood vessels.

Polyurethane biomaterials for fabricating 3D porous scaffolds and supporting vascular cells.

Novel physically crosslinked polyurethane-block-poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) hydrogel biomaterials.

Protein adsorption and platelet adhesion onto ion-containing polyurethanes.

Interactions of coronary artery smooth muscle cells with 3D porous polyurethane scaffolds.

Smooth muscle alpha-actin and calponin expression and extracellular matrix production of human coronary artery smooth muscle cells in 3D scaffolds.

Fabrication of highly porous tissue-engineering scaffolds using selective spherical porogens.

Prosthetic aortic heart valves: modeling and design.

Synthesis and electrospinning of ε-polycaprolactone-bioactive glass hybrid biomaterials via a sol-gel process.

Three-dimensional topography of synthetic scaffolds induces elastin synthesis by human coronary artery smooth muscle cells.

Strategies in functional poly(ester amide) syntheses to study human coronary artery smooth muscle cell interactions.

Tissue engineering scaffolds containing embedded fluorinated-zeolite oxygen vectors.

Type I collagen cleavage is essential for effective fibrotic repair after myocardial infarction.

The role of endothelial cell-bound Jagged1 in Notch3-induced human coronary artery smooth muscle cell differentiation.

Focal contact formation of vascular smooth muscle cells on Langmuir-Blodgett and solvent-cast films of biodegradable poly(ester amide)s.

Hydroxyapatite formation on sol-gel derived poly(ε-caprolactone)/bioactive glass hybrid biomaterials.

The role of Ras-ERK-IL-1β signaling pathway in upregulation of elastin expression by human coronary artery smooth muscle cells cultured in 3D scaffolds.

Fibrous biodegradable l-alanine-based scaffolds for vascular tissue engineering.

Advances in growth factor delivery for therapeutic angiogenesis.

Controlling sensitivity and stability of ferrous-xylenol orange-gelatin 3D gel dosimeters by doping with phenanthroline-type ligands and glyoxal.

Computational aspects in mechanical modeling of the articular cartilage tissue.

Small-diameter vascular tissue engineering.

Role of bioactive 3D hybrid fibrous scaffolds on mechanical behavior and spatiotemporal osteoblast gene expression.

Regulation of vascular smooth muscle cell phenotype in three-dimensional coculture system by Jagged1-selective Notch3 signaling.

Biomimetic L-aspartic acid-derived functional poly(ester amide)s for vascular tissue engineering.

Controlled delivery of fibroblast growth factor-9 from biodegradable poly(ester amide) fibers for building functional neovasculature.

Biodegradable polyphosphazene biomaterials for tissue engineering and delivery of therapeutics.

Bioactive and biodegradable nanocomposites and hybrid biomaterials for bone regeneration.

Activation of transcription factor GAX and concomitant down-regulation of IL-1β and ERK1/2 modulate vascular smooth muscle cell phenotype on 3D fibrous scaffolds.