Fabrication of lumenized vascular tubes for tissue engineering applications

• Main Authors: Liew, Andy Wen Loong, Zhang, Yilei
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Vascularization; Tissue Engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/84361; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/41783
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

There is an ever-growing demand for donor organs in the world today which is unmet by the very limited supply. To address this shortage, tissue engineers aim to replace or restore damaged tissue in patients without the need for autologous/allogeneic tissue grafts from donor sites. Engineered tissue...