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Recent patents on polymeric scaffolds for tissue engineering

  • Xiaoming Li*
  • , Xi Liu
  • , Yixuan Yu
  • , Xuanhui Qu
  • , Qingling Feng
  • , Fuzhai Cui
  • , Fumio Watari
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Hokkaido University
  • Tsinghua University
  • University of Science and Technology Beijing

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Abstract

The past several decades have seen explosive growth in the reports of tissue engineering for tissue repair. All scaffolds of tissue engineering are made of special materials, known as biomaterials, which have been defined as "materials intended to interface with biological systems to evaluate, treat, augment or replace any tissue, organ, or function of the body" [D.F. Williams, The Williams Dictionary of Biomaterials, Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 1999]. The present article discusses the useful patents in the field of the polymeric biomaterials that are currently developed as scaffolds with their intrinsic physicochemical and dimensional properties for the application towards recent therapeutic strategies for tissue engineering including soft and hard tissue engineering.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)65-72
Number of pages8
JournalRecent Patents on Biomedical Engineering
Volume2
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2009
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Polymer
  • Scaffold
  • Tissue engineering
  • Tissue regeneration

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