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Adjustable delivery of pro-angiogenic FGF-2 by alginate:collagen microspheres
Zaheer Ali, Anik Islam, Peter Sherrell, Mark Le-Moine, Georgios Lolas, Konstantinos Syrigos, Mehrdad Rafat, Lasse D. Jensen
Biology Open 2018 7: bio027060 doi: 10.1242/bio.027060 Published 12 March 2018
Zaheer Ali
1Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping SE-58183, Sweden
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Anik Islam
1Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping SE-58183, Sweden
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Peter Sherrell
2Department of Materials, Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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Mark Le-Moine
3Department of Biomedical Engineering, Linkoping University, Linköping SE-58183, Sweden
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Georgios Lolas
4Oncology Unit, 3rd Department of Medicine, ‘Sotiria’ General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens 115 27, Greece
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4Oncology Unit, 3rd Department of Medicine, ‘Sotiria’ General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens 115 27, Greece
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3Department of Biomedical Engineering, Linkoping University, Linköping SE-58183, Sweden
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vol. 7 no. 3, bio027060

DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1242/bio.027060
PubMed 
29449216

Published By 
The Company of Biologists Ltd
Online ISSN 
2046-6390
History 
  • Received May 24, 2017
  • Accepted February 7, 2018
  • Published online March 12, 2018.
Posted online 
February 15, 2018
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© 2018. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed.

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  1. Zaheer Ali1,
  2. Anik Islam1,
  3. Peter Sherrell2,
  4. Mark Le-Moine3,
  5. Georgios Lolas4,
  6. Konstantinos Syrigos4,
  7. Mehrdad Rafat3,* and
  8. Lasse D. Jensen1,*
  1. 1Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping SE-58183, Sweden
  2. 2Department of Materials, Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
  3. 3Department of Biomedical Engineering, Linkoping University, Linköping SE-58183, Sweden
  4. 4Oncology Unit, 3rd Department of Medicine, ‘Sotiria’ General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens 115 27, Greece
  1. ↵*Authors for correspondence (mehrdad.rafat{at}liu.se; lasse.jensen{at}liu.se)
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Adjustable delivery of pro-angiogenic FGF-2 by alginate:collagen microspheres
Zaheer Ali, Anik Islam, Peter Sherrell, Mark Le-Moine, Georgios Lolas, Konstantinos Syrigos, Mehrdad Rafat, Lasse D. Jensen
Biology Open 2018 7: bio027060 doi: 10.1242/bio.027060 Published 12 March 2018
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Adjustable delivery of pro-angiogenic FGF-2 by alginate:collagen microspheres
Zaheer Ali, Anik Islam, Peter Sherrell, Mark Le-Moine, Georgios Lolas, Konstantinos Syrigos, Mehrdad Rafat, Lasse D. Jensen
Biology Open 2018 7: bio027060 doi: 10.1242/bio.027060 Published 12 March 2018

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