Biomateriales diseñados para imitar las propiedades mecánicas de los músculos

Shanshan Lv1, Daniel M Dudek, Yi Cao

  • 1Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada.

Nature
|May 7, 2010
PubMed
Resumen

Los investigadores desarrollaron proteínas elastoméricas artificiales inspiradas en la proteína muscular titina. Estos nuevos biomateriales imitan la elasticidad muscular y funcionan como amortiguadores resistentes, con aplicaciones potenciales en la ingeniería tisular.

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