Tissue engineering is a
multidisciplinary approach aimed at producing new
organs and tissues for implantation in order to
circumvent the limitations imposed by current
techniques such as surgical tissue transfer.
Structure begets function and highly ordered
skeletal muscle (SkM) consists of elongated,
multinucleate muscle cells (fibres) that are arranged
in bundles surrounded by connective tissue sheaths.
It is therefore of no surprise that tissue engineered
SkM complexes are often designed around fibre
containing scaffolds. This work is the natural
continuation of strategies introduced at TCES 200
