Medical textiles tissue engineering applications

Nanofibers have applications in medicine, artificial organ components, tissue engineering, implant material, drug deliveiy, wound dressing, and medical textile materials. Nanofiber meshes... 

Textile materials are used in a wide variety of applications in healthcare and medicine which include implantable materials for in vivo applications. Vascular grafts, artificial ligaments, artificial blood vessels and mesh gra are typical implantable medical devices. High-tech advances in tissue engineering have enabled researchers to cultivate implantable hiunan organs to the required shape by growing living cells on textile sc olds. 

This section focuses on prominent medical applications where 3D textile strucmre has been applied, that is, bandages and composite dressings for wound management and supportive structures for tissue engineering and body implants. 

In spite of progress achieved, serious challenges remain to acquire a clear and full understanding of potential fiber implications in the field of implantable medical textiles. The product stmcture—property relationship is an important research field. We must be able to mimic native mechanical and stmctural parameters to best suit our devices. We can thus adapt the mechanical parameters to specific applications. Regarding tissue engineering, it remains to develop efficient manufacturing processes for the preparation of fibrous scaffolding. 

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