Organ repair, regeneration, and transplantation are constantly in demand due to various
acute, chronic, congenital, and infectious diseases. Apart from traditional remedies, tissue …

Porous scaffolds have been employed for decades in the biomedical field where
researchers have been seeking to produce an environment which could approach one of …

Cardiovascular defects, injuries, and degenerative diseases often require surgical
intervention and the use of implantable replacement material and conduits. Traditional …

Certain polymeric materials such as polyurethanes (PUs) are the most prevalent class of
used biomaterials in regenerative medicine and have been widely explored as vascular …

Tissue Engineering (TE) is an interdisciplinary field that encompasses materials science in
combination with biological and engineering sciences. In recent years, an increase in the …

Polymers play a vital role as a scaffold in tissue engineering. Polymers, as biomaterials, can
mimic the extracellular matrix (ECM) of cells and improve the biological behavior of cells in …

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) play an important role in the pathogenesis of numerous
diseases including atherosclerosis, diabetes, inflammation and myocardial infarction (MI). In …

Small-diameter artificial vascular grafts (SDAVG) are used to bypass blood flow in arterial
occlusive diseases such as coronary heart or peripheral arterial disease. However, SDAVGs …

To date, a wide range of materials, from synthetic to natural or a mixture of these, has been
explored, modified, and examined as small-diameter tissue-engineered vascular grafts (SD …

The unique properties of silk proteins (SPs), particularly silk sericin (SS) and silk fibroin (SF),
have attracted attention in the design of scaffolds for tissue engineering over the past …