… Therefore, tissue engineering gives the opportunity to generate living substitutes for tissues
and organs, which may overcome the drawbacks of classical tissue reconstruction: lacking …

… Thus, alternatives are desperately needed, and the development of novel methods to
regenerate or replace damaged heart muscle using tissue engineering and regenerative medicine …

… predicted that “tissue engineer” would … of tissue engineering or regenerative medicine—an
umbrella term given to varied strategies of repairing or replacing damaged or diseased tissues…

Since the beginning of organ/tissue transplantation, the therapeutic modality of choice in
end-stage organ failure, organ shortage has been the main problem in transplantation medicine…

… engineering can have diagnostic applications where the tissue … The foundation of tissue
engineering/regenerative medicine … tissue engineering is a more technical concept of tissue and …

… On the other hand, regenerative medicine uses other strategies to induce organ regeneration
… years, originating the broad field of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine (TERM). …

… organs could be kept “alive” in culture for months, with the intent to reuse them. Decades later,
regenerative medicine… regenerating human cells, tissues, and organs affected by disease, …

… is that regenerative medicine … organ transplants and it relates to tissue engineering. There
is no absolute cut-off in the transformation of these into fully developed regenerative medicine …

… healthcare by providing artificially developed tissues and organs substitutes on demand. …
to both regenerative medicine and in vitro research applications of engineered tissues, along …

… overlap in how researchers use the terms regenerative medicine and tissue engineering,
we group these activities together in this review under the heading of regenerative medicine. …