The synergism of stem cell biology and biomaterial technology promises to have a profound
impact on stem-cell-based clinical applications for tissue regeneration. Biomaterials …

Globally health care spending is increasing unsustainably. This is especially true of the
treatment of musculoskeletal (MSK) disease where in the United States the MSK disease …

Biomaterials have played an increasingly prominent role in the success of biomedical
devices and in the development of tissue engineering, which seeks to unlock the …

Biological scaffold materials derived from the extracellular matrix (ECM) of intact mammalian
tissues have been successfully used in a variety of tissue engineering/regenerative …

Biomaterials are key components in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine
applications, with the intended purpose of reducing the burden of disease and enhancing …

Mammalian biologic scaffolds composed of extracellular matrix (ECM) contain countless
structural and functional moieties that have been shown to be necessary for tissue …

Cell-derived extracellular matrices (CD-ECMs) captured increasing attention since the first
studies in the 1980s. The biological resemblance of CD-ECMs to their in vivo counterparts …

Biologic scaffolds composed of naturally occurring extracellular matrix (ECM) have received
significant attention for their potential therapeutic applications. The full potential of the ability …

It is an exciting time to be involved in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine (TERM)
research. Despite its relative youth, the field is expanding fast and breaking new ground in …

This chapter discusses mammalian extracellular matrix (ECM) as a biologic scaffold material
for tissue engineering applications. ECM has been used as a surgically implantable …