| Title: |
Tissue engineering and the challenges of imitating nature [electronic resource] / Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic. |
| Author(s)/Name(s): |
Vunjak-Novakovic, Gordana. |
| Publisher: |
[Bethesda, Md. : National Institutes of Health, 2007] |
| Related Names: |
National Institutes of Health (U.S.) |
| Series: |
The NIH Wednesday afternoon lecture |
| Language: |
eng |
| Electronic Links: |
http://videocast.nih.gov/launch.asp?14079 |
| MeSH Subjects: |
Tissue Engineering |
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Organ Culture Techniques |
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Stem Cells |
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Lectures |
| Summary: |
(CIT): Tissue engineering is an area of science and technology expected to improve our life, by offering new treatment options for regenerative medicine. By creating biological substitutes of native tissues, tissue engineering can help outlive a failure of any of our organs. The overall objective of tissue engineering is to fully restore the lost tissue function. Engineered tissues of sufficiently high fidelity can also provide physiologically relevant yet controllable models for fundamental research - for example, to study stem cells in a native-like three-dimensional context, or within a model of disease. The clinical and scientific utility of tissue engineering certainly depends on our ability to predictably direct the cells to express the right phenotype in the right place and at the right time. We are observing that the same factors that regulate tissue development in vivo (molecular and physical) can be used to direct cell fate and tissue assembly in vitro. Therefore, tissue engineering is largely an effort of imitating nature as it tends to recapitulate the native environment during tissue development and remodeling. This talk will discuss biologically inspired tissue engineering, and the utilization of stem cells and advanced culture systems for regenerative medicine and biological research. |
| Notes: |
Title from screen banner (viewed Nov. 15, 2007). |
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Streaming video (1 hr., 8 min. : sd., col.). |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Open-captioned. |
| NLM Unique ID: |
101319971 |
| Other ID Numbers: |
(DNLM)CIT:14079 |
