Marco A.Velasco∗, Diego A. Garzón-Alvarado†
Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics, Vol.10, No.2, pp. 137-157, 2013, DOI:10.3970/mcb.2013.010.137
Abstract The design of porous scaffolds for tissue engineering requires methods to generate geometries in order to control the stiffness and the permeability of the implant among others characteristics. This article studied the potential of the reaction-diffusion systems to design porous scaffolds for bone regeneration. We simulate the degradation of the scaffold material and the formation of new bone tissue over canal-like, spherical and ellipsoid structures obtained by this approach. The simulations show that the degradation and growth rates are affected by the form of porous structures. The results have indicated that the proposed method has More >