Outlook for Tissue Engineering of the Tympanic Membrane

Outlook for Tissue Engineering of the Tympanic Membrane

Tympanic membrane perforation is a common problem leading to hearing loss. Despite the autoregenerative activity of the eardrum, chronic perforations require surgery using different materials, from autologous tissue - fascia, cartilage, fat or perichondrium - to paper patch. However, both, surgical procedures (myringoplasty or tympanoplasty) and the materials employed, have a number of limitati...

Progress of Membrane Engineering for Water Treatment

Together with the supply of energy and the environmental protection, fresh water is one of the three keys elements for the sustainable development of every society. Where the availability of water cannot be carried out by using conventional sources, unavoidable appears the resort of the major water source: the sea. Today, RO is one the most used membrane processes for the production of fresh wa...

Tympanic membrane organ culture using cell culture well inserts engrafted with tympanic membrane tissue explants.

Tissue engineering approaches using growth factors and various materials for repairing chronic perforations of the tympanic membrane are being developed, but there are surprisingly few relevant tissue culture models available to test new treatments. Here, we present a simple three-dimensional model system based on micro-dissecting the rat tympanic membrane umbo and grafting it into the membrane...

Membrane Engineering for Today and for Tomorrow

fabricating electrospun poly(3-hydroxybutyrate)/hydroxyapatite nanocomposite scaffold for tissue engineering application

. در رســاله ی حاضر، ابتدا داربست نانوالیاف سه بعدی متخلخل به روش الگوبرداری تصویری شبیه سازی شد. با استفاده از طراحی آزمایش به روش تاگوچی پس از ساخت داربست های پلی (3- هیدروکسی بوتیرات) (p3hb) شناسایی رفتار پارامترهای موادی مثل لزجت سیال پلیمر، فراریت و رسانایی الکتریکی محلول پلیمری و پارامترهای دستگاهی مثل دبی حجمی سیال، ولتاژ الکتریکی و فاصله نازل تا جمع کننده صورت گرفت. بعد از محاسبه ی خصوص...