Design, Materials, and Mechanobiology of Biodegradable Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering.

A review about design, manufacture, and mechanobiology of biodegradable scaffolds for bone tissue engineering is given. First, fundamental aspects about bone tissue engineering and considerations related to scaffold design are established. Second, issues related to scaffold biomaterials and manufact...

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Publicado en:BioMed Research International Vol. 2015; pp. 1 - 22
Autores principales: Velasco, Marco A., Narváez-Tovar, Carlos A., Garzón-Alvarado, Diego A.
Formato: equations & formulas review tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell 3/26/2015
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Sumario:A review about design, manufacture, and mechanobiology of biodegradable scaffolds for bone tissue engineering is given. First, fundamental aspects about bone tissue engineering and considerations related to scaffold design are established. Second, issues related to scaffold biomaterials and manufacturing processes are discussed. Finally, mechanobiology of bone tissue and computational models developed for simulating how bone healing occurs inside a scaffold are described.