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. 2010 Jan 26;16(5):1469–1477. doi: 10.1089/ten.tea.2009.0118

Table 1.

Biomimetic Vascular Network Design Principles to Achieve Physiologic Blood Flow in Tissue Engineering Scaffolds and Tissue-Specific Design Inputs to Tailor the Flow and Architecture to Meet the Metabolic Demands of a Particular Tissue

Biomimetic vascular network design principles Tissue-specific vascular network design inputs
1. Defined relationship between parent and daughter diameters 1. Tissue-specific architecture
2. Physiologic branching angle 2. Inlet pressure
3. Biomimetic vessel length 3. Outlet pressure
4. 1:1 aspect ratio for all vascular channels 4. Volume flow rate
5. Venous scaling 5. Channel density
6. Uniform flow at bifurcations  
7. Physiological shear stress