title: Tissue Engineering in Orthopaedics.
abstract: ➤It is important to carefully select the most appropriate combination of scaffold, signals, and cell types when designing tissue engineering approaches for an orthopaedic pathology.➤Although clinical studies in which the tissue engineering paradigm has been applied in the treatment of orthopaedic diseases are limited in number, examining them can yield important lessons.➤While there is a rapid rate of new discoveries in the basic sciences, substantial regulatory, economic, and clinical issues must be overcome with more consistency to translate a greater number of technologies from the laboratory to the operating room.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Bioengineering (A.M.T. and A.G.M.) and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (A.G.M.), Rice University, Houston, Texas tatara@rice.edu.
authors.forename: Alexander M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Tatara
authors.affiliation: Departments of Bioengineering (A.M.T. and A.G.M.) and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (A.G.M.), Rice University, Houston, Texas mikos@rice.edu.
authors.forename: Antonios G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Mikos
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D019637:Orthopedic Procedures; D023822:Tissue Engineering; D054457:Tissue Scaffolds