3D polymer scaffolds for tissue engineering.
This review discusses some of the most common polymer scaffold fabrication techniques used for tissue engineering applications. Although the field of scaffold fabrication is now well established and advancing at a fast rate, more progress remains to be made, especially in engineering small diameter blood vessels and providing scaffolds that can support deep tissue structures. With this in mind, we introduce two new lithographic methods that we expect to go some way to addressing this problem.
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University of Glasgow Centre for Cell Engineering, Glasgow, UK. ks@elec.gla.ac.uk
Gadegaard
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Tormen
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Meredith
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Riehle
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D000818:Animals; D001672:Biocompatible Materials / Q000737:chemistry*; D001808:Blood Vessels / Q000737:chemistry / Q000254:growth & development*; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D036103:Nanotechnology / Q000379:methods; D011108:Polymers / Q000737:chemistry*; D023822:Tissue Engineering / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*
D001672:Biocompatible Materials; D011108:Polymers