title: Designer self-assembling peptide scaffolds for 3-d tissue cell cultures and regenerative medicine.
abstract: Biomaterial science has made enormous progress in the last few decades. Nonetheless, innovative biomaterials are still urgently needed to provide in vitro cell-culture models that more closely resemble three-dimensional (3-D) cell interactions and cyto-architectures in bodies and tissues. In this review, the recent advances toward this goal through molecular engineering of various designer self-assembling peptide scaffolds are discussed. These peptide scaffolds can be commercially and custom-tailor synthesized materials with high purity and may be not only useful for specific 3-D tissue cell cultures but also for tissue repair and regenerative therapies. Furthermore, these designer self-assembling peptide scaffolds have recently become powerful tools for regenerative medicine to repair nervous tissue, to stop bleeding in seconds, to repair infarctuated myocardia, as well as being useful medical devices for slow drug release.
authors.affiliation: Center for Biomedical Engineering NE47-379, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA.
authors.forename: Fabrizio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Gelain
authors.forename: Akihiro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Horii
authors.forename: Shuguang
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D001672:Biocompatible Materials / Q000737:chemistry; D018929:Cell Culture Techniques; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D002465:Cell Movement; D010455:Peptides / Q000737:chemistry*; D044968:Regenerative Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D046509:Tissue Culture Techniques; D023822:Tissue Engineering
chemical_list: D001672:Biocompatible Materials; D010455:Peptides