There is a demand for tissue engineering of the bladder needed by patients who experience
a neurogenic bladder or idiopathic detrusor overactivity. To avoid complications from …

Purpose of review In bladder cancer and neuro-bladder, reconstruction of the bladder
requires bowel segment grafting for augmentation cystoplasty or neo-bladder creation …

Regenerative medicine is a new branch of medicine based on tissue engineering
technology. This rapidly developing field of science offers revolutionary treatment strategy …

As a result of recent successes in regenerative medicine approaches to engineering
multiple disparate tubular organs, methodology commonalities are emerging. Principal …

The urinary bladder is a complex organ with the primary functions of storing urine under low
and stable pressure and micturition. Many clinical conditions can cause poor bladder …

Tissue engineering techniques for bladder regeneration have been applied successfully for
many years in a variety of in vitro and in vivo models. But despite these rapid advances, to …

There are many conditions that can affect the normal structure of the urinary bladder wall
and lead to the inadequate evacuation of urine or even disable urine excretion. In these …

Replacement of urinary bladder tissue with functional equivalents remains one of the most
challenging problems of reconstructive urology over the last several decades. The gold …

Results Numerous studies to develop a substitute for the native urinary bladder wall us-ing
the tissue engineering approach are ongoing. Stem cells combined with biomaterials open …

During the last decade, there has been a dramatic increase in studies aimed at regeneration
of the urinary bladder. Many studies employed animal‐derived or synthetic materials as …