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ReviewFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology2021

Design Challenges in Polymeric Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering.

Maria I Echeverria Molina, Katerina G Malollari, Kyriakos Komvopoulos

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Review in Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 136 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

136 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Maria I Echeverria MolinaDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States.
Katerina G MalollariDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States.
Kyriakos KomvopoulosDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Numerous surgical procedures are daily performed worldwide to replace and repair damaged tissue. Tissue engineering is the field devoted to the regeneration of damaged tissue through the incorporation of cells in biocompatible and biodegradable porous constructs, known as scaffolds. The scaffolds act as host biomaterials of the incubating cells, guiding their attachment, growth, differentiation, proliferation, phenotype, and migration for the development of new tissue. Furthermore, cellular behavior and fate are bound to the biodegradation of the scaffold during tissue generation. This article provides a critical appraisal of how key biomaterial scaffold parameters, such as structure architecture, biochemistry, mechanical behavior, and biodegradability, impart the needed morphological, structural, and biochemical cues for eliciting cell behavior in various tissue engineering applications. Particular emphasis is given on specific scaffold attributes pertaining to skin and brain tissue generation, where further progress is needed (skin) or the research is at a relatively primitive stage (brain), and the enumeration of some of the most important challenges regarding scaffold constructs for tissue engineering.

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biochemistrybiodegradabilitybiopolymerscellsmechanical behaviorscaffoldsstructuretissue engineering

Identifiers

PMID34195178
PMCPMC8236583

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