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  1. Orthopaedic Research Laboratories Department of Surgery 375 MSRB, Duke University Medical Center, Box 3093, Durham, NC, 22710, USA

    Farshid Guilak

  2. Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Cincinnati, 2901 Campus Drive, Cincinnati, OH, 45221-0048, USA

    David L. Butler

  3. Orthopaedic Research Laboratories, University of Michigan, Room G-161, 400 North Ingalls, Ann Arbor, MI, 48105-0486, USA

    Steven A. Goldstein

  4. Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences, University of Michigan, 1011 North University Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-1078, USA

    David J. Mooney

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Tranquillo, R.T., Isenberg, B.C. (2003). Artificial Soft Tissue Fabrication from Cell-Contracted Biopolymers. In: Guilak, F., Butler, D.L., Goldstein, S.A., Mooney, D.J. (eds) Functional Tissue Engineering. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-21547-6_23

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