ABSTRACT
The cell-seeded temporary scaffold approach is the most widely used strategy for tissue engineering (Fuchs et al. 2001). In this approach, living cells are obtained from a tissue harvest, from either the patient (autograft) or a different person (allograft),
1 INTRODUCTION
In the near future, the regeneration of body tissues or organs can be a key strategy to overcome the lack of tissue or organ shortage. Tissue engineering is a fast growing medicine area now being introduced in clinical exercise, which will certainly replace other therapies in routine clinical practice. This new domain represents a new, emerging interdisciplinary field involving combined efforts of biologists, engineers, material scientists and mathematicians for the development of biological substitutes to restore, maintain, or improve tissue functions (Gibson, 2005).
