MICRO-AND NANOENGINEERING APPROACHES TO DEVELOPING GRADIENT BIOMATERIALS SUITABLE FOR INTERFACE TISSUE ENGINEERING - Micro and Nanotechnologies in Engineering Stem Cells and Tissues - page 52

MICRO- AND NANOENGINEERING
APPROACHES TO DEVELOPING
GRADIENT BIOMATERIALS
SUITABLE FOR INTERFACE
TISSUE ENGINEERING
S ERGE O STROVIDOV , 1 A ZADEH S EIDI , 2 S AMAD A HADIAN , 1 M URUGAN
R AMALINGAM , 1,3,4 AND A LI K HADEMHOSSEINI 1,5,6
1 WPI-Advanced Institute for Materials Research (WPI-AIMR), Tohoku University,
Sendai, Japan
2 Technology Center, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Onna-son, Okinawa, Japan
3 Institut National de la Sante Et de la Recherche Medicale UMR977, Faculte de Chirurgie
Dentaire, Universite de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
4 Centre for Stem Cell Research (CSCR), (A unit of Institute for Stem Cell Biology and
Regenerative Medicine, Bengaluru) Christian Medical College Campus, Vellore, India
5 Center for Biomedical Engineering, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's
Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, USA
6 Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
3.1 INTRODUCTION
Interface tissue engineering (ITE) is a rapidly developing field that focuses on the
fabrication and development of interfacial tissues for regenerative applications.
Interfacial tissues in the human body are primarily found at the interface between