Medical Material
tissue scaffold
tis·sue scaf·fold
Subclass of:
Prostheses and Implants;
Culture Media
Definitions related to tissue scaffolds:
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Cell growth support structures composed of BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS. They are specially designed solid support matrices for cell attachment in TISSUE ENGINEERING and GUIDED TISSUE REGENERATION uses.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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(tissue support frame) Composites with structure/function properties used to replace or correct damaged, missing, or poorly functioning components in living systems; components may be processed from naturally occurring or synthetic materials, or a combination of these; typically called matrices or scaffolds, they direct the growth of cells migrating from surrounding tissue or of cells seeded within the porous structures, providing a substrate for cell attachment, proliferation, differentiation and migration.CRISP ThesaurusNational Institutes of Health, 2006
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