Scaffold for heart patch

• Main Author: Indran Kanisan Packery
• Other Authors: Tan Lay Poh
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Biomaterials
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/36172
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Unlike other organs in the body, the heart muscle has no replacement alternatives. The most challenging issue in myocardial tissue engineering is to create/regenerate the engineered heart muscle patch. The main objective of the present work was to fabricate a hydrogel that can adhere to soft tissues...