Composite tissue-engineered materials

Author

Vesely, I. ; Ramamurthi, A. ; Shi, Y.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Cleveland Clinic Found., OH, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

811

Abstract

Biological tissues are complex composites containing collagen, elastin and glycosaminoglycans. In order to develop tissue-engineered analogs, each of these three components can be fabricated in vitro using conventional tissue culture technologies, and then assembled in the appropriate configuration. This paper summarizes recent efforts towards that end.

Keywords

biological specimen preparation; biological tissues; biomechanics; biomedical materials; biomimetics; cellular biophysics; composite materials; molecular biophysics; organic compounds; proteins; biological tissues; biomechanically functional connective tissue replacement; collagen; complex composites; composite tissue-engineered materials; conventional tissue culture technologies; elastin; glycosaminoglycans; in vitro; tissue-engineered analogs; Aggregates; Biological materials; Biological tissues; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical materials; Composite materials; Mechanical factors; Optical fiber polarization; Scanning electron microscopy; Spine;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 2002. 24th Annual Conference and the Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society EMBS/BMES Conference, 2002. Proceedings of the Second Joint

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7612-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2002.1137087

Filename

1137087