TY - CHAP AU - Pedro Olivério Pinho AU - José Miguel Campos AU - Carla Mendonça AU - Ana Rita Caseiro AU - José Domingos Santos AU - Ana Colette Maurício AU - Luís Miguel Atayde ED - Francesco Baino Y1 - 2017-12-13 PY - 2017 T1 - Clinical Application of Macroporous Ceramic to Promote Bone Healing in Veterinary Clinical Cases N2 - Biomaterials are often designed to act as scaffolds, i.e., 3D porous templates that support and stimulate the growth of healthy tissue and then safely dissolve once they have performed their functions. This book provides a picture of the current state of the art in the field of scaffolds for tissue engineering, highlighting the potential associated to the latest scientific and technological advancements. The former part of the book focuses on the repair of "hard" tissues (primarily bone) by means of bioceramic/glass scaffolds, and the latter deals with the applications of polymeric scaffolds for regenerating "soft" tissues and structures including the peripheral nerve, heart, gastric mucosa and pancreas. Special emphasis is given to the challenges associated to scaffold manufacturing, biomimetic properties and cell-scaffold interactions. BT - Materials, Technologies and Clinical Applications SP - Ch. 5 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.70341 DO - 10.5772/intechopen.70341 SN - 978-953-51-3642-2 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-19 ER -