Strategies for Recruitment and Selection of Mesenchymal Stem Cells

Abstract

In “situ” tissue engineering is a promising approach in regenerative medicine, envisaging to potentiate the physiological tissue repair processes by recruiting the host’s own cellular progenitors at the lesion site by mean of a bioactive materials. This approach, heavily relies on the capability of scaffold to broadcast the correct signals to effectively and selectively recruit stem cells. Our aim is to realize innovative device able to recruit and select Mesenchymal Stem Cells both in three dimensional matrix and twoo- dimensional platforms.