Porcine Collagen for Tissue Engineering

Collagen is a useful biomaterial with uses that go beyond the lab. It has also found commercial use in photography. In tissue engineering, collagen can be turned into hydrogels that give engineered tissue support and structure.

This page follows the path from porcine skin to a collagen hydrogel. ...

Collagen hydrogels act as a biologically compatible three dimensional structure, similar to that of native tissue, which facilitates the development of engineered tissue. Collagen, the main component of these gels, is an extracellular matrix protein found in connective tissue. And is used to fabricate hydrogels which, are 3D polymer networks com...