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Recent advances in bone tissue engineering scaffolds.

Susmita Bose, +2 more
- 01 Oct 2012 - 
- Vol. 30, Iss: 10, pp 546-554
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In this review, recent advances in bone scaffolds are highlighted and aspects that still need to be improved are discussed.
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This article is published in Trends in Biotechnology.The article was published on 2012-10-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1737 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Bone regeneration & Tissue engineering.

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Osteogenic lineage restriction by osteoprogenitors cultured on nanometric grooved surfaces: the role of focal adhesion maturation.

TL;DR: In this article, the FDA-approved plastic polycaprolactone was embossed with nanometric grooves and the response of primary and immortalized osteoprogenitor cells observed.
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Bone Regeneration Using Gene-Activated Matrices

TL;DR: Tissue engineering strategies to regenerate bone with specific focus on non-viral gene delivery systems are discussed, including gene-activated matrices, which can be achieved in a way that stimulates osteogenesis and bone repair within osseous defects.
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Starch-Hydroxyapatite Composite Bone Scaffold Fabrication Utilizing a Slurry Extrusion-Based Solid Freeform Fabricator.

TL;DR: Overall, the utilization of starch as a natural binder system in SFF scaffolds was found to improve both green strength and in vitro biocompatibility.
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Toward mimicking the bone structure: design of novel hierarchical scaffolds with a tailored radial porosity gradient.

TL;DR: A new scaffold design with a built-in gradient in porosity, which approximate the radial bone structure is presented, and osteogenic differentiation was influenced by pore size and location in scaffolds displaying a radial porosity gradient.
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