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Journal of Nanotechnology
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 429890, 9 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/429890
Research Article
Control of Differentiation of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells by Altering the Geometry of Nanofibers
1Department of Fibre Amenity Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Fukui, Fukui 910-8507, Japan
2Department of Applied Chemistry and Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Fukui, Fukui 910-8507, Japan
Received 30 April 2012; Accepted 21 May 2012
Academic Editor: A. M. Rao
Copyright © 2012 Satoshi Fujita et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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