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A Full Skin Defect Model to Evaluate Vascularization of Biomaterials In Vivo
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1Department of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery, University Hospital rechts der Isar,Technische Universität München, 2Institute for Signal Processing,University of Lübeck, 3Department of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery,University Hospital Zürich, 4FONDAP Center for Genome Regulation, Facultad de Ciencias,Universidad de Chile
Chapters
- 00:05Title
- 01:21Preparation of Scaffolds and Excision of Skin
- 02:35Scaffold Implantation and Postoperative Care
- 03:39Explantation of Scaffold and Analysis of Vascular Network
- 06:50Results: Vascularization in Scaffold Implants
- 07:27Conclusion
Vascularization is key to approaches in successful tissue engineering. Therefore, reliable technologies are required to evaluate the development of vascular networks in tissue-constructs. Here we present a simple and cost-effective method to visualize and quantify vascularization in vivo.
