Fabrication of injectable hydrogels from silk fibroin and angiogenic peptides for vascular growth and tissue regeneration

Development of new biomaterials which can structurally and functionally mimic natural cell environments is one major goal of tissue engineering. Recently, self-assembling peptides are attractive candidates to prepare biomimetic cellular niches, because their nanoscale network and biomechanical properties are similar to those of the natural extracellular matrix (ECM). Here, we describe the generation of a new bioactive hydrogel composed of silk...