Preface

Abstract

It is my great pleasure and honor to participate in the launching of the Volume 3, issue 01 of our journal “Current Tissue Engineering”. I would like to thank and pay tribute to the hard work and dedication of the editorial board members and staff. Without them this would not be possible. Tissue engineering is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field involving the biological, chemical, physical, and engineering sciences. It uses a combination of cells and biomaterials to generate new functional tissues for implantation to repair or replace damaged tissues due to trauma, disease, or aging. In this issue, we have 3 review articles on the updated information of use of adipose tissue for tissue engineering: “ Recent advances and challenges in adipose tissue engineering: Adipose derived stem cell-based approaches: (Author: A. Cimpean): Autologous Fat Transfer and Cell-Based Strategies for Soft Tissue Reconstruction (Authors: Senarath-Yapa et al.) and “The future of neuroregenerative therapy for Parkinson’s disease” (Authors: Sugaya & Hendrix). We also have 1 review article on Biomaterial: “Potential of tissue engineered blood vessel as model to study effect of flow and wall thickness on cellular communication” (Authors: Ragaseema et al.). We have the first time 3 research articles: “Tubulin, F-box/leucine-rich repeat protein 14, and type 1 procollagen C-peptide in bovine periosteal cells β Association” (Author: M. Akiyama); Islet purification for clinical islet transplantation. (Author: H. Noguchi): “NMR-Relaxation and PFG NMR Studies of Water Dynamics in Oriented Collagen Fibres with different degree of cross-linking”. (Authors: Rodin and Nikerov). In future issues, it is my hope that we will expand our scope to include both review and full-length articles on biomechanics, mechano-biology and cellular therapies in both animal models and clinical trials.