Statistics from the NHS Blood and Transplant Annual Review show that total organ transplants
have increased to 4213 in 2012, while the number of people waiting to receive an organ …

Recent regenerative medicine and tissue engineering strategies (using cells, scaffolds,
medical devices and gene therapy) have led to fascinating progress of translation of basic …

BACKGROUND Statistical reports show that every year around the world approximately 15
million bone fractures occur; of which up to 10% fail to heal completely and hence lead to …

… I, Shima Salmasi, confirm that the work presented in this thesis is my own. Where information
has been derived from other sources, I confirm that this has been indicated in the thesis. …

Intracranial aneurysms are present in 1-5% of population and can be described as “ticking
time bombs” that can go off at any time and cause serious harms including permanent …

The biocompatibility of a material is crucial in branding it as a biomaterial. Building on the
previous biocompatibility chapter, this chapter mainly focuses on the assessment of …

Over the past decade tissue engineering has shown promise to overcome the challenges
and hurdles of organ transplantation for replacing diseased organs and tissues. Tissue …

Stem Cell Nanoengineering reviews the applications of nanotechnology in the fields of stem
cells, tissue engineering, and regenerative medicine. Topics addressed include various …

… The HA combination with POSS-PCU was examined for the progressing goal of a standard
composite bio-material for bone attaching and amplification by Shima Salmasi et al. in 2017 […

Over the past 30 years a number of animal models of cerebral ischemic injury have been
developed. Middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) in particular reproduces both ischemic …