Collagen chitosan porous scaffolds with improved biostability for skin tissue engineering

... 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

... 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

... NANOFABRICATION, ARCHITECTURE CONTROL, AND CROSSLINKING OF COLLAGEN SCAFFOLDS AND THE POTENTIAL IN CORNEAL TISSUE ENGINEERING APPLICATION ZHONG SHAOPING (M.ENG INSTITUTE OF PROCESS ENGINEERING, ... by electrospinning using a mixture of TFE and water as the dissolving solvent The potential of applying the nano-scale collagen- GAG scaffolds i...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 09:33

... 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

... 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

... APATITE BASED MICROCARRIERS FOR BONE TISSUE ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS FENG YONG YAO, JASON B.Eng.(Hons), National University of Singapore A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ENGINEERING ... Evaluation of Apatite- Based Microbeads Ceramic Transactions 247 2014 2) Feng J, Chong M, Chan J, Zhang ZY, Teoh SH, Thian ES Apatite- based microcarriers for bone...

Ngày tải lên: 22/09/2015, 15:18

... (lateral collateral ligament and medial collateral ligament) , and two interior ligaments (anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and posterior cruciate ligament) , which help control stabilisation and ... Rotating Wall Bioreactor 28 2.2.2.3 The Flow Perfusion Bioreactor 29 CHAPTER 3: DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF BIAXIAL MECHANICAL STIMULATION AND PERFUSION BIOREACTOR 32 3....

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2015, 10:25

... project is to develop an ideal substrate for myocardial tissue engineering using electrospun natural proteins We hypothesize that the use of cardiac- specific proteins, which are of significance post ... other therapies are experimented for the treatment of the infarcted myocardium, of which the tissue engineering approach is gaining much attention Cardiac tissue engi...

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2015, 19:04

... 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

... tissue engineering application This thesis reports on a novel hybrid nanofibrous PCL membrane scaffold for cardiovascular tissue engineering application, achieved by surface modification of the PCL ... methods in nanofibrous surface modification of PCL membrane are presented in details Ultra- thin PCL membrane was prepared via 2-rollheated-mill,...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2015, 22:40

... training of SVMs for the variable ciAdaBoostRBFSVM, AdaBoostSVM and SVM are under the same parameter when comparing the performance of the algorithms, C= 1000 For SVM and AdaBoostSVM, set the ... "adaptive" Base learner algorithm, the number of cycles T Initialize: the weight of samples: w1 (i) = / n, for alli =l,*, n Ve,(1-e,)] 949 AN IMPROVED ALGORITHM FOR ADABOOST WIT...

Ngày tải lên: 24/04/2014, 13:05

... Hydrothermal synthesis of MnO2 /CNT nanocomposite with a CNT core/porous MnO2 sheath hierarchy architecture for supercapacitors Hui Xia*1, Yu Wang2, Jianyi Lin2, and Li Lu*3 School of Materials ... electrochemical performance of the MnO2 /CNT -5- nanocomposite as an electrode material in supercapacitors was investigated Capacitive behaviors of the p...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 23:20

... decreases as the oversampling rate increases The difference between the analysis and synthesis windows is negligible for the commonly used window functions, such as the Gaussian and Hanning windows ... EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing GOT and the Convergence Conditions for the Reconstructed Order Waveforms 2.1 Discrete Gabor Transform and Gabor...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... can be interpreted as a bandpass digital filter operation followed by a decimation operation [2] The bandpass digital filter associated with the DFT method is centered at frequency 2π/3 and has ... [3] D Anastassiou, “DSP in genomics,” in Proc IEEE Int Conf Acoustics, Speech, Signal Processing, pp 1053–1056, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, May 2001 [4] S Tiwari, S Ramachandran, A Bh...

Ngày tải lên: 23/06/2014, 01:20