Extracellular matrix, mechanotransduction and structural hierarchies in heart tissue engineering.

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Published in Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci on August 29, 2007

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Kevin K Parker1, Donald E Ingber

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1: School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

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