Journal
MACROMOLECULAR BIOSCIENCE
Volume 11, Issue 9, Pages 1149-1163Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/mabi.201000505
Keywords
biomaterials; biomimetic; growth factors; stem cells; tissue engineering
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Growth factors play a critical role in regulating processes involved in cellular differentiation and tissue regeneration, and are therefore considered essential elements in many tissue engineering strategies. The covalent immobilization of growth factors to biomaterial matrices addresses many of the challenges associated with delivering freely-diffusible growth factors and has thus emerged as a promising method of achieving localized and sustained growth factor delivery. This Feature Article discusses methods that have been used to immobilize growth factors to substrates, followed by an overview of several tissue repair and regeneration applications in which immobilized growth factors have been used.
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