Muscle tissue engineering.
Only recently have scientists come to appreciate that many tissues and cell populations that were formerly considered to be in a terminally differentiated state are capable of division and or dedifferentiation. It is the goal of the tissue engineer to understand and redirect this potential. Muscle tissue-engineering efforts will be directed toward building in vitro replacements for in vivo problems. Tissue-engineering advances will be interdependent with advances in gene therapy techniques to restore function at a cellular level.
DiEdwardo
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Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Petrosko
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Acarturk
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DiMilla
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LaFramboise
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Johnson
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D000818:Animals; D001709:Biotechnology; D018929:Cell Culture Techniques; D017690:Cell Transplantation; D018014:Gene Transfer Techniques; D015316:Genetic Therapy; D006801:Humans; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000166:cytology; D009130:Muscle, Smooth / Q000166:cytology; D009132:Muscles / Q000166:cytology*; D009206:Myocardium / Q000166:cytology; D012038:Regeneration