Natural origin biodegradable systems in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine: present status and some moving trends

JF Mano, GA Silva, HS Azevedo… - Journal of the …, 2007 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The fields of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine aim at promoting the
regeneration of tissues or replacing failing or malfunctioning organs, by means of combining …

Matrices and scaffolds for delivery of bioactive molecules in bone and cartilage tissue engineering

SH Lee, H Shin - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2007 - Elsevier
Regeneration of bone and cartilage defects can be accelerated by localized delivery of
appropriate growth factors incorporated within biodegradable carriers. The carrier …

Photopolymerizable and degradable biomaterials for tissue engineering applications

JL Ifkovits, JA Burdick - Tissue engineering, 2007 - liebertpub.com
Photopolymerizable and degradable biomaterials are finding widespread application in the
field of tissue engineering for the engineering of tissues such as bone, cartilage, and liver …

Hydrogels as extracellular matrices for skeletal tissue engineering: state-of-the-art and novel application in organ printing

NE Fedorovich, J Alblas, JR de Wijn… - Tissue …, 2007 - liebertpub.com
Organ printing, a novel approach in tissue engineering, applies layered computer-driven
deposition of cells and gels to create complex 3-dimensional cell-laden structures. It shows …

Polymeric protein delivery systems

KY Lee, SH Yuk - Progress in polymer science, 2007 - Elsevier
Although various peptide and protein drugs have been developed for therapeutic purposes,
several challenges can still be encountered, including a relatively short half-life within the …

Matrices and scaffolds for DNA delivery in tissue engineering

L De Laporte, LD Shea - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2007 - Elsevier
Regenerative medicine aims to create functional tissue replacements, typically through
creating a controlled environment that promotes and directs the differentiation of stem or …

[HTML][HTML] Degradable hydrogel scaffolds for in vivo delivery of single and dual growth factors in cartilage repair

TA Holland, EWH Bodde, V Cuijpers, LS Baggett… - Osteoarthritis and …, 2007 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: As our population ages, treatment for joint pain associated with articular
cartilage damage is becoming a prevalent challenge. Accordingly, this work investigates …

Design and characterization of poly (ethylene glycol) photopolymerizable semi-interpenetrating networks for chondrogenesis of human mesenchymal stem cells

AN Buxton, J Zhu, R Marchant, JL West, JU Yoo… - Tissue …, 2007 - liebertpub.com
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are used extensively in cartilage tissue engineering. We
have developed a photopolymerizable poly (ethylene glycol diacrylate)(PEGDA) and poly …

Chondrogenic differentiation potential of human mesenchymal stem cells photoencapsulated within poly (ethylene glycol)–arginine-glycine-aspartic acid-serine thiol …

CN Salinas, BB Cole, AM Kasko, KS Anseth - Tissue engineering, 2007 - liebertpub.com
Chondrogenesis of human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) encapsulated in poly
(ethylene glycol)(PEG)-based hydrogels was studied in the presence and absence of 5 …

Biomaterials for tissue engineering

E Eisenbarth - Advanced Engineering Materials, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Tissue engineering needs a biomaterial as a framework for single cells to build a vital and
well functioning tissue. A future challenge is to modify biomaterials used this purpose in a …