by Priti | Jan 16, 2019 | Regenerative Medicine |
Significance The alteration of the delicate balance between repolarizing and depolarizing ionic currents determines arrhythmic risk. In animal cardiomyopathic models and human heart failure, ion channel downregulation results in slow conduction and prolongation of the...
by Priti | Nov 16, 2018 | Regenerative Medicine |
Significance Smart hydrogels are attractive in many applications for example drug delivery, sensors and actuators. They tend to undergo corresponding changes in properties under external stimuli such as temperature, light, electricity, pressure, and pH. It was found...
by Priti | Nov 15, 2018 | Regenerative Medicine |
Significance Scaffolds are crucial in cell proliferation particularly, the desired cells. They are very important, especially in tissue engineering because they preserve tissue volume, provide temporary mechanical functions and also deliver bio factors. An effective...
by Priti | Nov 15, 2018 | Regenerative Medicine |
Significance Reconstructing three-dimensional tissue structures has been a challenge for quite some time. Fortunately, the development of the scaffold-based tissue engineering approach that regulates key cellular events such as cell proliferation and matrix synthesis...
by Priti | Oct 11, 2018 | Regenerative Medicine |
Significance Growth factors and cytokines released from damaged body tissues trigger circulating and resident stem cells to stimulate the repair of damaged tissues. Unfortunately, the efficacy of the stem cells has been observed to be compromised by the cytotoxic...
by Saleem | Mar 17, 2018 | Regenerative Medicine |
Significance In the embryonic kidney, three types of precursor cells interact to form three-dimensional structures of the kidney: nephron progenitor cells, ureteric buds, and interstitial progenitor cells. Methods to induce nephron structures via nephron progenitor...
