Engineering of cellular environments has become a valuable tool for
guiding cellular activity such as differentiation, spreading, motility,
proliferation or apoptosis which altogether regulates tissue
development in a complex manner. The adhesion of cells to its
environment is involved in nearly every cellular decision in vivo and
in vitro. Its detailed understanding and defined control also opens new
strategies for medical technologies with respect to, e.g., stem cell
regulation, tissue scaffolds, cell selection due to their disease
state, artificial blood vessels, or immunology.
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