Progress and opportunities for tissue-engineered skin

Nature64.80
Volume: 445, Issue: 7130, Pages: 874 - 880
Published: Feb 21, 2007
Abstract
Tissue-engineered skin is now a reality. For patients with extensive full-thickness burns, laboratory expansion of skin cells to achieve barrier function can make the difference between life and death, and it was this acute need that drove the initiation of tissue engineering in the 1980s. A much larger group of patients have ulcers resistant to conventional healing, and treatments using cultured skin cells have been devised to restart the...
Paper Details
Title
Progress and opportunities for tissue-engineered skin
Published Date
Feb 21, 2007
Journal
Volume
445
Issue
7130
Pages
874 - 880
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