In Situ Heart Valve Tissue Engineering: Is Scaffold Structural Biomimicry Overrated?

JACC Basic Transl Sci. 2020 Dec 28;5(12):1207-1209. doi: 10.1016/j.jacbts.2020.11.009. eCollection 2020 Dec.

Authors

Petra Mela¹, Antonio D'Amore^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany.
² Neoolife, Inc., McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
³ RiMED Foundation, Palermo, Italy.

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Keywords: bioinspired architecture; biomimicry; contact guidance; heart valves; in situ tissue engineering.

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