Experimental study and clinical application of tissue-engineered tendon
- VernacularTitle:组织工程化肌腱的实验研究与临床应用
- Author:
Nanhai QIU
;
Yingpeng XIA
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:
Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research
2007;0(24):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
BACKGROUND: Tendon transplantation is limited by deficiency of donor tendon or immunological rejection. With the development of cell culture and transplantation techniques and biomaterial science, tissue-engineered tendon, a novel ideal tendon substitute, can be used to repair tendon defect. OBJECTIVE: To summarize the research course and novel advances of tissue-engineered tendon. RETRIEVAL STRATEGY: A computer-based online search of PubMed database was undertaken to identify related English articles published between January 1994 and December 2007 with keywords "tissue engineering, artificial biocompatible tendon". In addition, we searched Wanfang database for related Chinese articles dated from January 1994 to December 2007 with the same keywords in Chinese. Eighty articles were collected from the above-mentioned databases, including 55 Chinese and 25 English. Only ①original articles with reliable argument, ②articles with clear viewpoints, and ③articles strongly correlated with the objective of the article were selected. Eight articles with unrelated content and 40 repetitive studies were excluded. LITERATURE EVALUATION: Thirty-two articles accorded with the inclusive criteria were included, including 10 animal experiments and in vivo, ex vivo and cytology experiments, 12 review articles, comments and lectures, and 10 clinical studies. DATA SYNTHESIS: Tendon injury not treated promptly may result in limb disturbance. Tissue-engineered tendons can repair the appearance and rebuilt the function of injured tendon, and serve as permanent substitutes. Currently, although tissue engineering is developing rapidly, there are still many problems in clinical application. Firstly, seed cells cannot only be harvested from autologous tenocytes. Secondly, how to improve materials to become ideal three-dimensional scaffold material for constructing organ, and how to simulate body environment to construct tendon tissue in vitro are still uncertain. CONCLUSION: Using bioreactor to simulate body environment to construct tissue-engineered tendon is future research focus.
