Budget Amount *help |
¥20,280,000 (Direct Cost: ¥15,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥4,680,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥5,590,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,290,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥6,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,500,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥8,190,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,890,000)
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Research Abstract |
The development of new actuators which can mimic living muscle performances would open new horizons in robotics field. We applied a magnetic force-based tissue engineering (Mag-TE) technique to skeletal muscle tissue engineering, and succeeded to construct highly cell-dense, aligned and contractile skeletal muscle-like tissues by using a genetic engineering approach and electrical pulse stimulation culture.
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