Con-current Rapid Fire Sessions  3 & 4

Biomimetic Materials

115

Using Nucleic Acid Aptamers to Develop Artificial Antibodies for Drug Delivery

Y. Wang, J. Zhou;

Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

116

Fluorescent quantification of osteogenesis of GFP-transgenic mouse calvarial osteoblasts on biomimetic coatings

L. T. Kuhn, Y. Liu, M. Advincula, Y-H. Wang, P. Maye, A. J. Goldberg;

Univ. of Connecticut Hlth.Ctr., Farmington, CT.

117

Fibrous Biomimetic Hydrogels for Tissue Engineering

J. S. Altus1, P. Sundelacruz2, M. L. Rowland1, J. L. West1;

1Rice Univ., Houston, TX, 2Rice Unveristy, Houston, TX.

118

Peptide-Induced Self-Assembly of Synthetic Poly(lactide fumarate) Macromer

A. E. Mercado, E. Jabbari;

Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.

119

Cell-Responsive Polyurethanes: Synthesis of Peptide-Based Polyol Soft Segments

H. Benhardt, T. Wilems, N. Sears, E. Cosgriff-Hernandez;

Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX.

120

Fibrin-knob Peptide Variants for Targeting Delivery to Fibrin Matrices

S. E. Stabenfeldt, W. Brown, A. Soon, T. H. Barker;

Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA.

121

Effect of Hydroxyapatite Content in Biomimetic Composite Scaffolds on Bone Marrow Stromal Cell Differentiation

I. O. Smith, H. Sun, P. X. Ma;

Univeristy of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

122

Development of Biomimetic Alendronate Sodium loaded CDHA coating

H. Zhou, A. Touny, J. Lawrence, D. Wagner, S. Bhaduri;

The Univeristy of Toledo, Toledo, OH.

123

Solid phase organic synthesis of a morpholine-2,5-dione library for polydepsipeptide synthesis

M. Abdelmelek, V. Bradford, M. Nguyen, P. Ren, B. Iverson, L. Suggs;

Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX.

124

Nano Architecture Formation from Novel Poly(L-lactic acid)-based Biomaterials

X. Liu, P. X. Ma;

Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

Cellular Responses to Their Microenvironments

125

Tendon Tissue Engineering Using the Human Umbilical Vein and Mesenchymal Stem Cells

R. Abousleiman, P. McFetridge, V. Sikavitsas;

Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK.

126

Evaluation of a monocyte/vascular endothelial cell co-culture on a vinyl-based polyurethane designed for vascular graft generation

S. M. McDonald1, L. A. Matheson1, J. E. McBane2, S. Sharifpoor2, P. Santerre2, R. S. Labow1;

1Univ. of Ottawa Heart Inst., Ottawa, ON, CANADA, 2Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, CANADA.

127

Integrin Alpha2 and Beta1 Subunits Mediate Osteoblast Response to Surface Roughness and Chemistry

R. Olivares-Navarrete1, A. Almaguer-Flores2, S. E. Rodil2, M. Wieland3, Z. Schwartz1, B. D. Boyan1;

1Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 2Univ. Natl. Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, MEXICO, 3Inst. Straumann, Basel, SWITZERLAND.

128

Rigidity-dependent Costimulation of Naïve CD4+ T cells

K. Shen, L. C. Kam;

Columbia Univ., New York, NY.

129

Regulation of Mesenchymal Stem Cell Differentiation by Controlling Moduli of Core-Shell Electrospun Fibers

J. Nam, J. Johnson, J. Lannutti, S. Agarwal;

The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH.

130

A Study in the Stimulation of Chondrocytes seeded in 3D Matrices by Continuous Ultrasound

A. Subramanian;

Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE.

131

Spontaneous Formation of Stable Wrinkling Patterns in Hydrogels to Control Cellular Morphology

M. Guvendiren, S. Yang, J. A. Burdick;

Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

132

Realignment of Cells and Matrix Following Release from Constrained Compaction for Neural Engineering

D. G. DeWitt1, J. P. Stegemann2, D. M. Thompson1;

1Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., Troy, NY, 2Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

133

Hyaluronic Acid Interferes with Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 Signaling Among Alginate Embedded Chondrocytes

D. M. Yoon1, A. H. Reddi2, J. P. Fisher3;

1Univ. of Maryland - Coll. Park, College Park, MD, 2Ctr. for Tissue Regeneration and Repair, Univ. of California Davis Med. Ctr., Sacramento, CA, 3Univ. of Maryland - Fischell Dept. of Bioengineering, College Park, MD.

134

Effects of mechanical stimulation on the matrix synthesis of bone marrow derived stem cells in fibrous elastomeric scaffolds

J. A. Stella, W. D. Merryman, N. J. Amoroso, W. R. Wagner, M. S. Sacks;

Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.