IN VITRO INVESTIGATIONS OF CELL AND TISSUE COMPATIBILITY OF BIOMATERIALS

Biocompatibility is concerned with the interactions that occur between biomaterials and host tissue and is one of the main points in biomaterials research and has been defined as" The ability of a material to perform with an appropriate host response in a specific application"[1]. The host response to implanted materials occurs in a series of complex reactions that span a large interval, from seconds to many months. Therefore, for evaluation of the biocompatibility of a new biomaterial there is not one single test method ...