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Sushma M Bhosle1, Kristin H Loomis1, Jonathan L Kirschman1

  • 1Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, 950 Atlantic Dr. NW, Engineered Biosystems Building, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA.

Biomaterials
|January 15, 2018
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Keywords:
ECM proteinHydrogelsMechanotransductionNanoparticlesSkeletalmuscle cellsmRNA delivery

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