Tissue engineering
Tissue Engineering
Tissue engineering (pronunciation: /ˈtɪʃuː ˌɛndʒɪˈnɪərɪŋ/) is a multidisciplinary field that applies the principles of biology, engineering, and medicine to develop biological substitutes that restore, maintain, or improve tissue function.
Etymology
The term "tissue engineering" was first used in the late 1980s. The word "tissue" comes from the Latin textus, meaning "woven", and the term "engineering" is derived from the Latin ingenium, meaning "cleverness".
Overview
Tissue engineering involves the use of a combination of cells, engineering materials, and suitable biochemical and physio-chemical factors to improve or replace biological tissues. It includes the use of a scaffold to form a three-dimensional structure suitable for cell growth, where the cells can proliferate and differentiate to form a tissue.
Related Terms
- Regenerative Medicine: A branch of medicine that develops methods to regrow, repair or replace damaged or diseased cells, organs or tissues.
- Stem Cells: Undifferentiated cells capable of giving rise to indefinitely more cells of the same type, and from which certain other kinds of cell arise by differentiation.
- Biocompatibility: The ability of a material to perform with an appropriate host response in a specific application.
- Scaffold (biology): A framework in which cells can grow and proliferate to form a tissue.
See Also
External links
- Medical encyclopedia article on Tissue engineering
- Wikipedia's article - Tissue engineering
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