Fabrication and Characterization of Pectin Hydrogel Nanofiber Scaffolds for Differentiation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells into Vascular Cells

Despite significant progress over the past few decades, creating a tissue-engineered vascular graft with replicated functions of native blood vessels remains a challenge due to the mismatch in mechanical properties, low biological function, and rapid occlusion caused by restenosis of small diameter vessel grafts (<6 mm diameter). A scaffold with similar mechanical properties and biocompatibility to the host tissue is ideally needed for the...