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SUBMITTER: Burdick JA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4041107 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science translational medicine 20130301 176
Acellular biomaterials can stimulate the local environment to repair tissues without the regulatory and scientific challenges of cell-based therapies. A greater understanding of the mechanisms of such endogenous tissue repair is furthering the design and application of these biomaterials. We discuss recent progress in acellular materials for tissue repair, using cartilage and cardiac tissues as examples of applications with substantial intrinsic hurdles, but where human translation is now occurr ...[more]