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Slide #1. The Future of Tissue Engineering Slide #2. Tissue Engineering Slide #3. cartilage Slide #4. Field of Isolated Chondrocytes from Cartilage Slide #5. Scaffold as a Mesh of poly(L-lactic acid) microfibers Slide #6. Rotating Bioreactor for Chondrocyte Culture Slide #7. Self-Assembly Slide #8. JACS 2001                    1D Self-Assembly
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<BR>     proliferation, migration, preventing apoptosis,
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<BR>one of the great challenges: angiogenesis and 
<BR>nutrient consumption levels by cells building
<BR> a macroscopic tissue Slide #11. Mineral Nucleation Region Slide #12. PNAS, 99, 5133 (2002) Slide #13. SEM of Nanofiber Network Slide #14. peptide-amphiphile 
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<BR>(10 mg/ml, pH 7.5) Slide #15. Spinal Cord Injury Slide #16. Spinal cord injury Slide #17. Sequellae of Spinal Cord Injury Slide #18. Structure of Laminin Slide #19. Non-bioactive
<BR>Nanofiber Slide #20. nanofiber matrix loaded with neural progenitor cells Slide #21. 50 mm Slide #22. Decreased Astrocyte Differentiation in Self Assembled Supramolecular Nanofibers Slide #23. achieve universal
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<BR> Slide #24. Rat Femoral Defect Model
<BR>defect filled with gel which is 1% by weight nanofiber and 99% by weight water Slide #25. Electrostatic Co-Assembly of Peptide Amphiphiles 
<BR>with Anti-Parallel Peptides Slide #26. growth factors mediate signaling pathways
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<BR> nanofibers of the scaffold molecularly designed to capture them non-covalently Slide #27. The Future in Regenerative Medicine