Engineering of biodegradable scaffolds intended for liver tissue engineering

... fabrication for liver tissue engineering 2-16 Scaffold surface modification 2-20 Tissue culture for liver tissue engineering 2-25 Coculture applications in liver tissue engineering ... Overview of tissue engineering 2-10 2.2.2 Liver tissue engineering 2-11 2.2.2.1 2.2.2.2 2.2.2.3 2.2.3 2.2.3.1 2.2.3.2 Scaffold material selection for liver tissue eng...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 10:22

... membrane intended for guided tissue repair determines the type, duration and degree of inflammatory and immune response, means of disintegration and its longevity in the host tissue [1] The inflammatory ... sides of a microbial cellulose membrane One side of the membrane is completely smooth (a), and the other side is distinctly rough (b) Scanning2electro...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:22

... FABRICATION, SURFACE MODIFICATION AND GROWTH FACTOR ENCAPSULATION OF POLYMERIC MICROSPHERES AS SCAFFOLD FOR LIVER TISSUE REGENERATION BY XINHAO ZHU (M Eng., ... 2.1 Tissue Engineering Chapter Introduction 2.2 Liver and Liver Tissue Engineering 2.3 Biocompatible Scaffold and Biomaterials 14 2.4 Surface Modification of the Scaffold 21 2.5 De...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 08:18

... bone tissue engineering for an ideal bone substitute 1.1.3 Strategies in BTE Tissue engineering is the restoration, improvement, maintenance and substitution of damaged tissues and organs using ... will be in solutions (Lakes, 2007) TCP is found naturally in the inorganic phase of bone in form of hydroxyapatite TCP is also responsible for the hardness...

Ngày tải lên: 09/10/2015, 11:18

... applied for the protection of water walls of pulverized-fuel power boilers The developed variants of the production technology of coatings of the required utilitarian properties take into account the ... resulting from the technological process The scope of the research presented covers part of the research carried out under earlier works of the autho...

Ngày tải lên: 30/05/2014, 12:08

... IMPROVING THE MECHANICAL AND FUNCTIONAL PERFORMANCE OF EXTRUSION- BASED ADDITIVE MANUFACTURED SCAFFOLDS FOR BONE TISSUE ENGINEERING MUHAMMAD TARIK ARAFAT (B.Sc in Mechanical Engineering, ... mechanical and functional performance of extrusion- based additive manufactured scaffolds. ” The main objective of this study was therefore to devel...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:51

... submitted for the degree of Master of Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the National University of Singapore under the supervision of Professor Teoh Swee Hin and Dr Alvin Yeo ... secrete bone tissue and form the tissue around itself like a protective wall of bone tissue They are responsible for the maintenance of healthy bone by...

Ngày tải lên: 09/10/2015, 11:18

... COMPOSITE CONTROLLED RELEASE SYSTEM OF NITRIC OXIDE FOR CARDIOVASCULAR TISSUE ENGINEERING APPLICATION ZHANG QINYUAN B.Eng (Hons), National University of Singapore A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE ... illustration of the proposed composite controlled release system of NO is depicted in Figure 1-1 There are three main parts in the composite system: supportiv...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:08

... desired site and to direct new tissue formation into the scaffolds [14] Some of the successes of Tissue Engineering include: engineering of artificial skin [15] to help burn victims and diabetic ... expression of extracellular matrix proteins and new tissue formation Therefore, the properties of such biomaterials are crucial in determining the success of many ti...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 09:10

... plating of hESC-derived chondrogenic cells Fig 17 Chondrogenic differentiation capability of hESC-derived chondrogenic cells Fig 18 Analysis of pluripotency and lineage- restriction of hESC-derived chondrogenic ... explored for their potential as viable cell sources for cartilage tissue engineering (Chung et al., 2008) Human embryonic stem cells (hES...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 09:57

... Biomaterials engineering 2.2 Significance and importance of tissue engineering 12 2.3 Poly(ε-caprolactone) thin films and matrices 16 2.4 Current progress of poly(ε-caprolactone) in biomedical engineering ... presented in the thesis showed the versatile use of lasers as a tool for laser micro -structuring and inducing chemical changes on selfdeveloped PCL thin film...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 08:36

... 11 1. 1.3 .1 1.2 Microthin films for use in layer- by -layer tissue engineering 12 Vascular Tissue Engineering .13 1. 2 .1 Clinical Need For Vascular Tissue Engineering 14 1. 2.2 ... 1. 1.2 Cellular Assembly 1. 1.2 .1 Cell printing .7 1. 1.2.2 Cell sheet engineering 1. 1.3 Layer- By -Layer Tissue Engineering Using Cell- Scaffold Hybrid Co...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 08:49

... cultured in the same medium, fibroblastic cells quickly grew out from fetal liver mononuclear cells, and failed to express endothelial phenotype 122 Chapter Isolation and Characterisation Of Vascular ... Chapter Isolation and Characterisation Of Vascular Progenitors Figure 4-3: Primary culture of haemopoietic tissue in EGM Following culture in endothelial cell media, outgrowth col...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 08:49

... expansion As seen in Figure 4-10, Colony forming assays of expanded FL 133 + cells generated CFU-E (Colony Forming Unit Erythrocyte, 1 .33 /1 03 cells), BFU-E (Burst Forming Unit Erythrocyte, 3. 00/1 03 ... involved in blood vessel formation was found, including angiogenesis, blood vessel morphogenesis, vasculature development and blood vessel development, and thus suppo...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 08:49

... Discharge (RFGD) Plasma 5.2.1 .4 Assessment of tensile properties The choice of the plasma-based method to modify the µXPCL surface was made on the basis of its advantageous low depth of penetration ... studied the assembly of cells and film to form a layered structure The tunicae in vascular tissue are unique in the composition of cells: each compartment is only...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 08:49