Muscle Tissue Engineering
Skeletal muscle is a classical example of “structure determining function.” Successful strategies for clinical applications of tissue-engineered skeletal muscle must recapitulate the processes that muscle undergoes during either embryonic development or a
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Ulrich Meyer · Thomas Meyer Jörg Handschel · Hans Peter Wiesmann (Eds.)
Fundamentals of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
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Ulrich Meyer, Prof. Dr. med. dent. Dr. med. Clinic for Maxillofacial and Plastic Facial Surgery Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf Moorenstraße 5 40225 Düsseldorf Germany E-mail: [email protected]
Jörg Handschel, Priv.-Doz., Dr. med. dent. Dr. med. Clinic for Maxillofacial and Plastic Facial Surgery Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf Moorenstraße 5 40225 Düsseldorf Germany E-mail: [email protected]
Thomas Meyer, Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Dr. rer. nat. Department of Internal Medicine – Cardiology University Hospital Marburg Baldingerstraße 1 35033 Marburg Germany E-mail: [email protected]
Hans Peter Wiesmann, Priv.-Doz., Dr. rer. medic. Biomineralisation and Tissue Engineering Group Department of Experimental Maxillofacial Surgery University of Münster Waldeyerstraße 30 48149 Münster Germany E-mail: [email protected]
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Preface
The man-made creation of tissues, organs, or even larger organisms was for a long time a matter of myth and dream throughout the history of medicine. It now comes into clinical reality. Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine are the terms that are nowadays used to describe the approach to generate complex tissues and organs from simpler pieces. Both are multidisciplinary, young and emerging fields in biotechnology and medicine, which are expected to change patient treatment profoundly, generating and regenerating tissues and organs instead of just repairing them. There is much promise and