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Nanomaterial Cell
Interactions in Tissue
Engineering
Erkan Turker Baran, Dilek Keskin,
and Aysen Tezcaner
3.1 NANOMATERIAL CELL INTERACTIONS
IN TISSUE ENGINEERING
The emergence of nanotechnology brought new ideas toward solutions of existing
problems in biomedical area. One of the biggest challenges was development of
scaffolds that can provide a better extracellular matrix (ECM) for cells in tis-
sue engineering. Although cells in our tissues generally vary in size between 5 and
20µm, it is known that they reside in their niche and their interactions with this
microenvironment are at submicron level. Besides, the perfect intracellular a