Potential of Nanofiber Matrix as Tissue-Engineering Scaffolds

By Zu-wei Ma, M. Kotaki, R. Inai, Seeram Ramakrishna. Tissue engineering, 2005

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Application of conductive polymers, scaffolds and electrical stimulation for nerve tissue engineering (2011, background): “Cells attach and organize around fibres with diameters smaller than that of the cells (Ma et al., 2005).”
Electrospinning: a fascinating fiber fabrication technique. (2010, methodology): “…et al., 2005), polyurethanes (Stankus et al., 2004), silk fibroin (Ohgo et al., 2003; Min et al., 2004a,b; Zarkoob et al., 2004; Alessandrino et al., 2008), collagen (Matthews et al., 2002), hyaluronic acid (Um et al., 2004), cellulose (Ma et al., 2005b), chitosan/collagen (Chen et al., 2007).”
Electrospinning polyaniline-contained gelatin nanofibers for tissue engineering applications. (2006, background): “Various biodegradable synthetic polymers [5,6], peptide copolymers [7], and natural proteins [8–10] have been electrospun into micro/nanofibers for a multitude of biomedical applications such as scaffolds used in tissue engineering [11–14], wound dressing [15], drug delivery [16], and vascular graft”