Vascular Tissue Engineering: Effects of Integrating Collagen into a PCL Based Nanofiber Material

The engineering of vascular grafts is a growing field in regenerative medicine. Although numerous attempts have been made, the current vascular grafts made of polyurethane (PU), Dacron®, or Teflon® still display unsatisfying results. Electrospinning of biopolymers and native proteins has been in the...

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Main Authors: Ulf Bertram, Dominik Steiner, Benjamin Poppitz, Dirk Dippold, Katrin Köhn, Justus P. Beier, Rainer Detsch, Aldo R. Boccaccini, Dirk W. Schubert, Raymund E. Horch, Andreas Arkudas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2017-01-01
Series:BioMed Research International
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/9616939