Biomedical Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
Chapter 7
Future Developments
Yuji Haraguchi and Tatsuya Shimizu
Institute of Advanced Biomedical Engineering and Science,
Tokyo Women's Medical University, 8-1 Kawada-cho,
Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162-8666, Japan
yharaguchi@abmes.twmu.ac.jp
In every chapter, details of myocardial tissue engineering and
regenerative medicine have been broadly reviewed. Myocardial
tissue engineering and regenerative medicine have shown
remarkable results for curing cardiovascular disease (CVD).
However, myocardial tissue engineering and regenerative medicine
are still a developing research field and have infinitude possibilities
and powerful potentials. In the final chapter of this topic, the future
plans of myocardial tissue engineering and regenerative medicine
are discussed.
Cell therapy using autologous dissociated cells has shown
a powerful potential, and clinical trials have already started
[1-3]. Scaffold-based and cell sheet-based tissue engineering
methodologies have been generated as a novel therapy showing a
higher therapeutic effect in animal models, and clinical trials using
autologous cells have started [4-13]. The advantage of engineered-
