Mechanical Aspects of Tissue Engineering

Aspects of Urological Tissue Engineering

Factors affecting the homeostasis of the urological system stem from a multitude of different sources that include developmental miscues to aberrant signaling pathways leading to malignant transformations. In order to create functional tissues that can act as surrogate tissues while simultaneously mimicking endogenous anatomical and physiological functions, strategies utilizing regenerative med...

Ethical aspects of tissue engineering: a review.

Tissue engineering (TE) is a promising new field of medical technology. However, like other new technologies, it is not free of ethical challenges. Identifying these ethical questions at an early stage is not only part of science's responsibility toward society, but also in the interest of the field itself. In this review, we map which ethical issues related to TE have already been documented i...

Physiological aspects of cardiac tissue engineering.

Cardiac tissue engineering aims at repairing the diseased heart and developing cardiac tissues for basic research and predictive toxicology applications. Since the first description of engineered heart tissue 15 years ago, major development steps were directed toward these three goals. Technical innovations led to improved three-dimensional cardiac tissue structure and near physiological contra...

Mechanical Characterisation of Hydrogels for Tissue Engineering

Minimization of Mechanical Aspects of Friction through Surface Engineering