Synthetic tailor-made scaffolds – a key issue for tissue engineering
The use of artificial tissue in regenerative medicine bears a great therapeutic potential, but
also has to meet high demands with respect to the generation of functional tissue in vitro and the
interaction of bioartificial device and natural tissue. Key issues for the successful use of in
vitro engineered tissues and implants as natural tissue and organ replacements are long term
stability and integration in the human body. Up to now numerous approaches for generation of
bioartificial tissues have not succeeded due to insufficient nutrition and oxygen supply. Therefore
current tissue engineered products can only be found in non vascularised tissues such as cartilage
and in vitro skin equivalents.
| Contact | Priv.-Doz. Dr. Günter Tovar |
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