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Control of Organogenesis: Towards Effective Tissue Engineering

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Fundamentals of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine

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The word “Organogenesis” is defined as “the production and development of the organs of an animal or plant” [1]. In the context of medical research, it has traditionally been applied to the natural processes of fetal development but it is now beginning to be applied also to the creation of living organs, or organ substitutes, by artificial means. It is this latter meaning that is most relevant to this book and most of this chapter will therefore focus on artificial organogenesis. It will be helpful, though, to review the basic features of natural organogenesis first, because the most successful methods of artificial organogenesis tend to build on them.

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Unbekandt, M., Davies, J. (2009). Control of Organogenesis: Towards Effective Tissue Engineering. In: Meyer, U., Handschel, J., Wiesmann, H., Meyer, T. (eds) Fundamentals of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77755-7_6

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