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Myocardial Tissue Engineering: Creating a Muscle Patch for a Wounded Heart
Author(s) -
LEOR JONATHAN,
COHEN SMADAR
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1196/annals.1302.026
Subject(s) - tissue engineering , economic shortage , biomedical engineering , muscle tissue , scar tissue , medicine , surgery , linguistics , philosophy , government (linguistics)
A bstract : Cardiac tissue engineering promises to revolutionize the treatment of patients with end‐stage heart failure and provide new solutions to the serious problem of heart donor shortage. By its broad definition, tissue engineering involves the construction of tissue equivalents from donor cells seeded within three‐dimensional polymeric scaffolds, then culturing and implanting of the cell‐seeded scaffolds to induce and direct the growth of new, healthy tissue. Here, we present an up‐to‐date summary of research studies in cardiac tissue engineering, with an emphasis on the critical design principles.