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Uterine bioengineering: emulating native tissues
REGENERATIVE MEDICINE
“The field in health sciences that aims to replace or regenerate human cells, tissues, or organs in order to restore or establish
normal function“
(Haseltine, 1999)
without scaffolds
with scaffolds
Cell Therapy Tissue Engineering
Innovation
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• Scaffolds:providecorrectbiochemicaland physical environment for cells and the body.
• Cellsandor“signals”canbeadded.
• Original aim: restore, maintain, or improve
function of tissues or whole organs.
(Langer and Vacanti, 1993)
• Now: also in vitro models.
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Uterine bioengineering: emulating native tissues
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