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The Quest toward limb regeneration: a regenerative engineering approach

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: The Holy Grail to address the clinical grand challenge of human limb loss is to develop innovative strategies to regrow the amputated limb. The remarkable advances in the scientific understanding of regeneration, stem cell science, material science and engineering, physics and novel surgical approaches in the past few decades have provided a regenerative tool box to face this grand challenge and address the limitations of human wound healing. Here we discuss the convergence approach put forward by the field of Regenerative Engineering to use the regenerative tool box to design and develop novel translational strategies to limb regeneration.

Source: Regenerative Biomaterials

DOI: 10.1093/rb/rbw002

Authors: Cato T. Laurencin, Lakshmi S. Nair

Institutions: University of Connecticut, UConn Health

Language: English

Topic: Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine

Subfield: Surgery

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $1,820

Funders: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases