Tissue engineering future trends

A.J. Salgado, O.P. Coutinho, R.L. Reis, Bone tissue engineering state of the art and future trends, Macromol. Biosci. 4 (2004) 743-765. 

Burdick, J. A. Mauck, R. L. Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering Applications. A Review of the Past and Future Trends, Springer, Wien 2010. 

In this chapter, we focus on recent efforts to design and fabricate soft shape-memory materials, including both polymeric and supramolecular systems. We first classify these materials based on their micro- and nanostructure (Section 5.2.2). We then highlight how soft shape-memory materials have been applied to biomedical applications as implantables (Section 5.2.3.1), drug delivery devices (Section 5.2.3.2), and tissue engineering scaffolds (Section 5.2.3.3). In addition, we briefly discuss future trends for utilizing soft shape-memory materials for biomedical applications (Section 5.2.4). 

Cardiac tissue engineering/regenerative medicine future trends... 

Qazi TH, Mooney DJ, Pumberger M, GeiBler S, Duda GN. Biomaterials based strategies for skeletal muscle tissue engineering existing technologies and future trends. Biomaterials 2015 53 502-21. 

Future trends for bone tissue engineering applications... 

Each section will express in detail features that can impart advanced properties to the polymer composites, with methods of surface modification, the central role of composites as sustained and controlled release systems (of drugs and other bioactive agents), and a part that reports on nanocomposites. The chapter concludes with general remarks and an insight of the likely future trends concerning the use of polymer composites for bone and cartilage tissue engineering. 

Salgado AJ, Coutinho OP, Reis RL. 2004. Bone Tissue Engineering State of the Art and Future Trends. Macromol Biosci 4(8) 743-765. 

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