Remodeling and Compaction in Tissue Engineered Small Vessels

Small-diameter vessels tissue engineering (TE) seeks to provide viable replacements to the native ones. The approach involves seeding autologous cells onto a biodegradable scaffold material and delivering the suitable environmental factors (biochemical and biomechanical stimuli) during culture via a conditioning protocol. Still, these replacements appear to lack the native mechanical integrity. TE protocols should then be improved and optimized.Copyright © 2009 by ASME