[Cell culture, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Part I].

Tissue engineering is an interdisciplinary field that applies the principles and methods of engineering and the cell culture toward the development of biomaterials that restore, maintain or improve tissue function. The amalgamation of engineering and medicine has interested many scientists for at last two hundred years. What was the goal of cell culture? First, for progress in life sciences achievement and subsequent for virology and toxicology development. In vitro studies are done because of many problems with carrying out animal experiments. In this work the authors present the attempts of physicians, anatomopathologists, embryologists and biologists which contributed to fast development of new area in medicine--tissue engineering.