Once damaged, articular cartilage has very little capacity for spontaneous healing because
of the avascular nature of the tissue. Although many repair techniques have been proposed …

When the polymeric material reaches the final stages of its degradation process,
biodegradable orthopaedic fixation devices elicit a local foreign-body reaction. In most …

The Handbook of Pharmaceutical Controlled Release Technology reviews the design,
fabrication, methodology, administration, and classifications of various drug delivery …

Formation of highly porous biodegradable scaffolds for tissue engineering SciELO - Scientific
Electronic Library Online vol.3 número2 The commercialization of bioinformatics An …

Biodegradable implants are increasingly used in the field of operative sports medicine.
Today, a tremendous variety of implants such as interference screws, staples, sutures, tacks …

Scaffolding plays a pivotal role in tissue engineering. To mimic the architecture of a natural
extracellular matrix component—collagen, nona‐fibrous matrices have been created with …

The biological bone healing depends on the presence of osteochondral progenitors and
their ability for proliferation. Isolated periosteal cells were seeded into biodegradable PGLA …

Two potential obstacles to the creation of implantable tissue engineered heart valves are
inadequate mechanical properties (ability to withstand hemodynamic stresses) and adverse …

A novel non-toxic biodegradable lysine-di-isocyanate (LDI)-based urethane polymer was
developed for use in tissue engineering applications. This matrix was synthesized with …

A method for the production of microporous poly (d, l-lactide-co-glycolide) foams containing
encapsulated proteins using supercritical carbon dioxide is described. Foams generated as …