Smart scaffolds in tissue regeneration

Samad Ahadian; Ali Khademhosseini

doi:10.1093/rb/rby007

Smart scaffolds in tissue regeneration

Regen Biomater. 2018 Jun;5(3):125-128. doi: 10.1093/rb/rby007. Epub 2018 Apr 17.

Authors

Samad Ahadian¹, Ali Khademhosseini^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Toronto General Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, ON M5G 2C4, Canada.
² Department of Bioengineering.
³ Department of Radiology.
⁴ Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.
⁵ Center for Minimally Invasive Therapeutics (C-MIT).
⁶ California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI), University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1600, USA.

Abstract

Recent advances in biofabrication technologies and chemical synthesis approaches have enabled the fabrication of smart scaffolds that aim to mimic the dynamic nature of the native extracellular matrix. These scaffolds have paved the way for tissue regeneration in a dynamic and controllable manner.

Keywords: drug delivery; regenerative mechanism; scaffolds.