Table I.

Maintenance of viability and/or potency within microcapsules.

Cell type	Capsule material	References
MSCs	Alginate	Goren et al. (2010), Penolazzi et al. (2010), Trouche et al. (2010)
	Alginate w/RGD sites	Markusen et al. (2006)
	Agarose-collagen	Batorsky et al. (2005)
	Agarose-chitosan-PEG	Paul et al. (2010)
	Agarose w/fibronectin	Karoubi et al. (2009)
ESCs	Alginate	Maguire et al. (2005), SitiIsmail et al. (2008), Wang et al. (2006)
	Agarose	Dang et al. (2004)
	Agarose w/alginate core	Sakai et al. (2008)
NSCs	Alginate	Li et al. (2006), Purcell et al. (2009)