Future perspectives in tissue engineering: ?Tissue Engineering? Review Series

Future perspectives in tissue engineering: ‘Tissue Engineering’ Review Series

Dr. Charles Vacanti can be considered to be some of the "Stem cells of tissue engineering", as it has been put once by Dr. Peter Johnson, the former president of the Tissue Engineering Society International. They made some of the seminal observations that have enabled many people worldwide to develop many types of tissues. A world-renowned leader in tissue engineering, Dr. Charles A. Vacanti is...

Membrane Engineering: Future Perspectives

Tissue Engineering in Dentistery

Introduction Perforation of maxillary sinus mucous membrane is of the most prevalent complication during open sinus lift surgery. Moreover, such complication can usually be managed by an absorbable membrane. As far as absorbable membranes are concerned, decellularized maxillary sinus mucous membranes, which is an extracellular matrix, can be used as a biologic scaffold and insulating membrane ...

Bone Tissue Engineering: a Mini-Review

Despite advances in bone tissue engineering, auto grafts from intra-oral or extra-oral donor sites are still the gold standard for treatment of large craniomaxillofacial defects. Biomaterial development, application of growth factor, and stem cells, open new gateway to bone regeneration studies, but real translation from bench to bedside have not yet happened. In this review article, a number o...

A review of advances in pancreatic tissue engineering

Background: A common treatment for patients with type 1 diabetes in which pancreatic beta cells are destroyed by their own immune system attack, is insulin injection. Because this treatment is not able to maintain complete glucose homeostasis compared to the function of endogenous insulin secreted by the pancreas; in the field of pancreatic tissue engineering, various treatment strategies have ...