Ligament/Tendon
Tissue engineering solutions: Silk
Image copyright Dennis Kunkel Microscopy
- Protein based natural fibre
- High tensile strength
- Maintains mechanical properties in tissue culture
- Slow degradation in vivo
- Already used as a suture material
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Lectures:
- Year 1:
- Cell Biology
- Year 2:
- Tissue Interactions and Biocompatibility
- Year 3/4:
- Tissue Engineering