Silk Fibroin in Tissue Engineering
- 4 June 2012
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Advanced Healthcare Materials
- Vol. 1 (4), 393-412
- https://doi.org/10.1002/adhm.201200097
Abstract
Tissue engineering (TE) is a multidisciplinary field that aims at the in vitro engineering of tissues and organs by integrating science and technology of cells, materials and biochemical factors. Mimicking the natural extracellular matrix is one of the critical and challenging technological barriers, for which scaffold engineering has become a prime focus of research within the field of TE. Amongst the variety of materials tested, silk fibroin (SF) is increasingly being recognized as a promising material for scaffold fabrication. Ease of processing, excellent biocompatibility, remarkable mechanical properties and tailorable degradability of SF has been explored for fabrication of various articles such as films, porous matrices, hydrogels, nonwoven mats, etc., and has been investigated for use in various TE applications, including bone, tendon, ligament, cartilage, skin, liver, trachea, nerve, cornea, eardrum, dental, bladder, etc. The current review extensively covers the progress made in the SF‐based in vitro engineering and regeneration of various human tissues and identifies opportunities for further development of this field.This publication has 206 references indexed in Scilit:
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