Microencapsulating and Banking Living Cells for Cell‐Based Medicine
Open Access
- 1 January 2011
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Healthcare Engineering
- Vol. 2 (4) , 427-446
Abstract
A major challenge to the eventual success of the emerging cell‐based medicine such as tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, and cell transplantation is the limited availability of the desired cell sources. This challenge can be addressed by cell microencapsulation to overcome the undesired immune response (i.e., to achieve immunoisolation) so that non‐autologous cells can be used to treat human diseases, and by cell/tissue preservation to bank living cells for wide distribution to end users so that they are readily available when needed in the future. This review summarizes the status quo of research in both cell microencapsulation and banking the microencapsulated cells. It is concluded with a brief outlook of future research directions in this important field.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Science Foundation (CBET-1154965)
- National Institutes of Health (R01EB012108)
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