Mechano-active tissue engineering

An ideal scaffold seeded with cells should exhibit appropriate mechanical responses as do natural tissues it temporarily deforms upon mechanical 

3 Mechano-active tissue engineering combines scaffolds which deliver mechanical signals to cells in a bioreactor or the living body. 

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Key words resorbable polymer, biocompatibility, hydrolytic degradation, enzymatic degradation, mechano-active tissue engineering, elastomeric properties, copolymerization, particulate leaching, gel spinning. 

Jeong S, Kwon J, Lim J, Cho S, Jung Y, Sung W, Kim S, Kim Y, Lee Y, Kim B, Choi C and Kim S (2005). Mechano-active tissue engineering of vascular smooth muscle using pulsatile perfusion bioreactors and elastic PLCL scaffolds , Biomaterials, 26,1405-1411. 

Lim J, Kim S, Kim S and KimY (2006). Enhanced production of ECM in vascular grafts by mechano-active tissue engineering Biomat. Res., 10,154-160. 

Jeong, S. I., Kwon, J. H., Lim, J. I. et al. 2005. Mechano-active tissue engineering ofvascular smooth muscle using pulsatile perfusion bioreactors and elastic Plcl scaffolds. Biomaterials 26 1405-11. 

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