Self-Assembling Peptide Nanofiber Scaffolds Accelerate Wound Healing

Aurore Schneider; Jonathan A. Garlick; Christophe Egles

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001410

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Self-Assembling Peptide Nanofiber Scaffolds Accelerate Wound Healing

Aurore Schneider,

Affiliations Division of Cancer Biology and Tissue Engineering, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Tufts University, School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Biomedical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Jonathan A. Garlick,

Affiliations Division of Cancer Biology and Tissue Engineering, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Tufts University, School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Christophe Egles

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Christophe.egles@tufts.edu

Affiliations Division of Cancer Biology and Tissue Engineering, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Tufts University, School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Self-Assembling Peptide Nanofiber Scaffolds Accelerate Wound Healing

Aurore Schneider,
Jonathan A. Garlick,
Christophe Egles

Published: January 9, 2008
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0001410

About the Authors

Aurore Schneider

Affiliations Division of Cancer Biology and Tissue Engineering, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Tufts University, School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Biomedical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jonathan A. Garlick

Affiliations Division of Cancer Biology and Tissue Engineering, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Tufts University, School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States of America

Christophe Egles

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Christophe.egles@tufts.edu

Affiliations Division of Cancer Biology and Tissue Engineering, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Tufts University, School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CE AS JG. Performed the experiments: AS. Analyzed the data: CE AS JG. Wrote the paper: CE AS JG.

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