Tissue Engineering of the Heart and Blood Vessels

Dear Colleagues,

The rapid development of tissue engineering makes it necessary to popularize scientific achievements that could provide a breakthrough in regenerative medicine. Considering that cardiovascular diseases are still the leading cause of death in the world population, vascular tissue engineering can provide many interesting solutions for the surgical and therapeutic treatment of this pathology. It is also relevant to study the fundamental aspects of the development of cardiovascular pathology, affecting intercellular interactions and the influence of various therapeutic agents that stimulate the regeneration of cardiac and vascular tissue. It is very important for the needs of cardiovascular surgery to create personalized biocompatible biomimetic scaffolds from modern synthetic and biodegradable polymers with the desired physical, mechanical, structural, and hemocompatible properties.

In this Special Issue entitled “Tissue Engineering of the Heart and Blood Vessels”, the focus will be on the development of tissue engineering structures for the restoration and remodeling of individual structures of the cardiovascular system, e.g., heart and vascular valve prostheses, to study the effectiveness of various biologically active components and biomedical cellular products that can affect the repair of cardiac and vascular tissue.

Regenerative medicine is directly related to the need for a personalized approach when creating tissue engineering structures. Therefore, authors with positive experience in the development of tissue engineering constructs based on cells or proteins of patients with cardiovascular diseases are also invited to publish in this Special Issue.

Experimental articles, review articles reflecting historical retrospectives and the current state of the problem, as well as comments are welcome.

Dr. Larisa Valeryevna Antonova
Guest Editor

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