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13. Bioreactor Culture Techniques for Cartilage-Tissue Engineering
Abstract
Tissue engineering is a major focus of biotechnological research today, with the expectation that this type of technique will ultimately transform medical practice (1). The most ambitious tissue-engineering schemes assume that specific tissues and organs will be restored, in a multistage fabrication procedure. For example, cells derived from the patient may be processed to increase the total number available, seeded into a suitable three-dimensional (3D) resorbable scaffold and further processed in vitro to induce the elaboration of neo-tissue prior to implantation (2).
Affiliation(s): (3) Department of Engineering, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
(4) Research Division of the Department of Surgery, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Series: Methods in Molecular Biology  |  Volume: 238  |  Pub. Date: Nov-17-2003  |  Page Range: 159-170  |  DOI: 10.1385/1-59259-428-X:159
Subject:  Biochemistry
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