Biomedical Engineering Reference
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Summary
Emerging from the multidisciplinary subjects, tissue engineering is a dynamic
and rapidly growing field in order to create new tissues and organs. Using tis-
sue engineering technologies, enormous expansion of clinical applications have
been developed recently. This topic serves as a reference that combines the ideas,
descriptions, experimental protocols for the flourishing engineering of tissues and
organs. It also contains hand-on information for tissue engineers and students by
providing comprehensive protocols including biomaterials used for tissue engi-
neering, various methods used to produce scaffolds and cell-scaffold interaction.
This topic also focuses on fabrication of tissue engineering scaffolds based on
poly (hydroxybutyrate-co-hydroxyvalerate) PHBV polymers using one of the
promising techniques, the emulsion freezing/freeze-drying technique. Complete
report on the study of successful fabrication of PHBV polymer and osteocon-
ductive hydroxyapatite (HA) incorporated HA/PHBV composite scaffolds with
controlled porosity, pore size distribution together with slow and controlled degra-
dation properties and biocompatibility suggests that the scaffolds have great prom-
ises for the bone tissue engineering applications.