Regenerative medicine. Opportunities and challenges: a brief overview.
Summary of "Regenerative medicine. Opportunities and challenges: a brief overview."
Regenerative medicine is a new multi-disciplinary field aiming at the repair or replacement of disease body parts. The field is progressing at an unprecedented pace and although the opportunities are immense, many hurdles lie ahead. This brief review analyses the opportunities and challenges faced by regenerative medicine.
Affiliation
Faculty of Medicine, Regenerative Medicine, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, Room 144, Roderic Hill Building, London SW7 2AZ, UK. ulia.polak@imperial.ac.uk
Journal Details
This article was published in the following journal.
Name: Journal of the Royal Society, Interface / the Royal Society
ISSN: 1742-5662
Pages: S777-81
Links
- PubMed Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20826477
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2010.0362.focus
Medical and Biotech [MESH] Definitions
Regenerative Medicine
A field of medicine concerned with developing and using strategies aimed at repair or replacement of damaged, diseased, or metabolically deficient organs, tissues, and cells via TISSUE ENGINEERING; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; and ARTIFICIAL ORGANS and BIOARTIFICIAL ORGANS and tissues.
Adaptation, Physiological
The non-genetic biological changes of an organism in response to challenges in its ENVIRONMENT.
Medicine, Kampo
System of herbal medicine practiced in Japan by both herbalists and practitioners of modern medicine. Kampo originated in China and is based on Chinese herbal medicine (MEDICINE, CHINESE TRADITIONAL).
Medicine, Unani
A modified Greco-Arabic medical system flourishing today as unani medicine. It was the product of Arab physicians and scholars captivated by Greek philosophy, science, and medicine. It is practiced today in India and Pakistan, largely as a type of herbal medicine. (From Magner, A History of Medicine, 1992, p136)
Integrative Medicine
The discipline concerned with using the combination of conventional (allopathic) medicine and ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE to address the biological, psychological, social, and spiritual aspects of health and illness.
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