Tissue Engineering
Type
Elective
Course Code
METY-496
Teaching Semester
Semester B
ECTS Credits
7
Syllabus
The course covers the following modules:
- Introduction – major concepts of tissue engineering or web technology.
- Drug dispensing systems.
- Modern therapeutic approach for loss of tissue or organ function.
- Tissue engineering as an approach to tissue replacement or restoration of organ function.
- Example of surgical reconstruction: coronary artery bypass. Examples of scaffolding design for tissue engineering- scaffolding manufacturing technologies.
- Introduction to stem cells and clinical applications using stem cells.
- Examples of applications of tissue engineering derived tissues: ectoderm (nervous system, cornea, skin);
- Endoderm(liver, pancreas, tubular structures).
- Mesoderm (cartilage, bone, muscles, blood vessels, heart valves, blood)