Tissue Engineering and Organ Regeneration

Lecture Videos

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Part I: Fundamentals of TEOR

• Lecture 1: Course Overview / Clinical Problems for TEOR; The Toolbox by Prof. Spector (external)
• Lecture 2: Organ Structure and Unit Cell Processes by Prof. Spector (external)
• Lecture 3: Unit Cell Processes Underlying TEOR; Modeling the Problem by Prof. Spector (external)
• Lecture 4: UCPs in Scar/Fibrosis; SMA-Expressing Connective Tissue Cells by Prof. Spector (external)
• Lecture 5: Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition I: Stimulants and Antagonists by Dr. Friehs (external)
• Lecture 6: Collagen Structure, Function, and Therapeutic Modification by Ms. Knowles (external)
• Lecture 7: Mitochondrial Dysfunction, Transfer, and Transplantation by Prof. McCully (external)
• Lecture 8: EndMT Myofibroblasts in Healing and Regeneration by Dr. Shu; Part I Review by Prof. Spector (external)

Part II: The Tools for TEOR; What They Are and How to Use Them

• Lecture 10: Quiz 1 Review; UCPs in Wound Healing by Prof. Spector (external)
• Lecture 11: The Tools for TEOR: Scaffolds by Prof. Spector (external)
• Lecture 12: Introduction to Organ Regeneration by Prof. Yannas (external)
• Lecture 13: Injury-Tissue Triad by Prof. Yannas (not available)
• Lecture 14: Scar Formation-Contraction Blockade by Prof. Yannas (external)
• Lecture 15: Skin and Peripheral Nerve Regeneration by Prof. Spector (external)
• Lecture 16: Review of Biomaterials as the Tools for TEOR by Prof. Spector (external)

Part III: Practice/Translation of TEOR: Clinical Applications

• Lecture 18: Quiz 2 Review by Prof. Spector (external)
• Lecture 19: Combinatorial Tools: Regulators and Genes in Biomaterials by Prof. Spector (external)
• Lecture 20: TEOR for Orthopedic Applications: Bone by Prof. Spector (external)
• Lecture 21: TEOR Applied to Teeth and Cartilages by Prof. Spector (external)
• Lecture 22: Central Nervous System: Spinal Cord by Prof. Spector (external)
• Lecture 23: Central Nervous System: Brain by Dr. Love (external)
• Lecture 24: Central Nervous System: Retina by Dr. Dromel (external)
• Lecture 25: Cardiac Tissue Engineering and Atrioventricular Block by Ms. Reddie (external)

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