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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-1-7
pubmed:abstractText
New generations of synthetic biomaterials are being developed at a rapid pace for use as three-dimensional extracellular microenvironments to mimic the regulatory characteristics of natural extracellular matrices (ECMs) and ECM-bound growth factors, both for therapeutic applications and basic biological studies. Recent advances include nanofibrillar networks formed by self-assembly of small building blocks, artificial ECM networks from protein polymers or peptide-conjugated synthetic polymers that present bioactive ligands and respond to cell-secreted signals to enable proteolytic remodeling. These materials have already found application in differentiating stem cells into neurons, repairing bone and inducing angiogenesis. Although modern synthetic biomaterials represent oversimplified mimics of natural ECMs lacking the essential natural temporal and spatial complexity, a growing symbiosis of materials engineering and cell biology may ultimately result in synthetic materials that contain the necessary signals to recapitulate developmental processes in tissue- and organ-specific differentiation and morphogenesis.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
1087-0156
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
23
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
47-55
pubmed:dateRevised
2005-11-16
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:15637621-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:15637621-Biocompatible Materials, pubmed-meshheading:15637621-Cell Adhesion, pubmed-meshheading:15637621-Cell Differentiation, pubmed-meshheading:15637621-Cell Lineage, pubmed-meshheading:15637621-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:15637621-Endothelial Cells, pubmed-meshheading:15637621-Extracellular Matrix, pubmed-meshheading:15637621-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:15637621-Hydrogels, pubmed-meshheading:15637621-Integrins, pubmed-meshheading:15637621-Ligands, pubmed-meshheading:15637621-Models, Biological, pubmed-meshheading:15637621-Neurons, pubmed-meshheading:15637621-Peptides, pubmed-meshheading:15637621-Polymers, pubmed-meshheading:15637621-Protein Engineering, pubmed-meshheading:15637621-Stem Cells, pubmed-meshheading:15637621-Time Factors, pubmed-meshheading:15637621-Tissue Engineering
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
Synthetic biomaterials as instructive extracellular microenvironments for morphogenesis in tissue engineering.
pubmed:affiliation
Integrative Biosciences Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Building AA-B 039, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. mlutolf@stanford.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review