Instructive scaffolds for tissue engineering

• Main Author: Cham, Hui Ting
• Other Authors: Chong Seow Khoon, Mark
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Bioengineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/71206
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Following an implant insertion, an immune response is launched where macrophages play a large role in. Due to macrophages’ inherent ability to polarize within a spectrum of phenotypes ranging from healing to inflammatory, an imbalance of the phenotypic population at the implant site can result in sc...