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What I want to talk about for most of the rest of the time today is
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this second bullet here, that tissue engineering involves
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control or regulation of normal healing processes.
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That if we want to understand and use tissue engineering
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we need to know something about how the body heals itself
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and take advantage of those natural mechanisms of tissue regeneration.
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We'll talk over the course of the next two lectures about tissue engineering
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as an attempt to replace the cellular component of diseased tissues.
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Whereas in drug therapy we're thinking about the molecular component,
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now we're replacing cells,
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that it uses cellular processes sometimes to control drug delivery.
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We'll talk about how you could use tissue engineering