Functional Tissue Engineering

The Functional Properties of Native Tissues.- How Does Nature Build a Tissue?.- Ligament Healing: Present Status and the Future of Functional Tissue Engineering.- Native Properties of Cardiovascular Tissues: Guidelines for Functional Tissue Engineering.- Functional Properties of Native Articular Cartilage.- Excitability and Contractility of Skeletal Muscle: Measurements and Interpretations.- Functional Requirements of Engineered Tissues.- Functional Requirements for the Engineering of a Blood Vessel Substitute.- In Vivo Force and Strain of Tendon, Ligament, and Capsule.- Requirements for Biological Replacement of the Articular Cartilage at the Knee Joint.- Functional Requirements: Cartilage.- Design Parameters for Tissue Engineering.- Design Parameters For Functional Tissue Engineering.- Tissue Engineering a Heart: Critical Issues.- Design Parameters for Engineering Bone Regeneration.- Tissue Engineering of Bone: The Potential Use of Gene Therapy for Difficult Bone Loss Problems.- Engineered Skeletal Muscle: Functional Tissues, Organs, and Interfaces.- Bioengineering the Growth of Articular Cartilage.- Assessment of Junction in Engineered Tissues.- Functional Tissue Engineering: Assessment of Function in Tendon and Ligament Repair.- The Role of Mechanical Forces in Tissue Engineering of Articular Cartilage.- Biomechanics of Native and Engineered Heart Valve Tissues.- Assessment of Function in Tissue-Engineered Vascular Grafts.- Assessment of the Performance of Engineered Tissues in Humans Requires the Development of Highly Sensitive and Quantitative Noninvasive Outcome Measures.- Cell-Matrix Interactions in Functional Tissue Engineering.- Functional Tissue Engineering and the Role of Biomechanical Signaling in Articular Cartilage Repair.- Regulation of Cellular Responseto Mechanical Signals by Matrix Design.- Artificial Soft Tissue Fabrication from Cell-Contracted Biopolymers.- Cytomechanics: Signaling to Mechanical Load in Connective Tissue Cells and Its Role in Tissue Engineering.- Bioreactors and the Role of Biophysical Stimuli in Tissue Engineering.- The Role of Biomechanics in Analysis of Cardiovascular Diseases: Regulation of the Fluid Shear Response by Inflammatory Mediators.- A Full Spectrum of Functional Tissue-Engineered Blood Vessels: From Macroscopic to Microscopic.- Engineering Functional Cartilage and Cardiac Tissue: In vitro Culture Parameters.- Tissue Engineering Skeletal Muscle.- Regulatory and Clinical Tissues in Tissue Engineering.- From Concept Toward the Clinic: Preclinical Evaluation of Tissue-Engineered Constructs.- Trends in the FDA.