Autologous tissue

They also seeded autologous vSMC and ECs obtained from ovine carotid arteries to study autologous tissue-engineering blood vessels in the descending aorta of juvenile sheep. They found that after three months implantation, grafts were fully patent, without dilatation, occlusion, or intimal thickening. A continuous luminal EC layer was formed. However, after six months ... 

K.J. Cronin, et al.. New murine model of spontaneous autologous tissue engineering, combining an arteriovenous pedicle with matrix materials, Plast. Reconstr. Surg. 113 (2004) 260-269. 

Kojima et al. [122,123] demonstrated the feasibihty of recreating the cartilage and fibrous portion of the trachea with autologous tissue, by using both nasal septal chondrocytes and fibroblasts. 

K. Kojima, L.J. Bonassar, A.K. Roy, C.A. Vacanti, J. Cortiella, Autologous tissue-engineered trachea with sheep nasal chondrocytes, J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 123 (6) (June 2002) 1177-1184. 

Kanzaki, M., Yamato, M., Yang, J., Sekine, H., Takagi, R., Isaka, T., et al. (2008). Functional closure of visceral pleural defects by autologous tissue engineered cell sheets. European Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 34, 864-869. 

McAllister TN, Maruszewski M, Garrido SA, Wystrychowski W, Dusserre N, Marini A, et al Effectiveness of haemodialysis access with an autologous tissue-engineered vascular graft a multicentre cohort study. Lancet 2009 373 1440-1446. 

De Fihppo, R. E., C. E. Bishop, L. F. FiUio, J. J. Yoo, and A. Atala. 2008. Tissue engineering a complete vaginal replacement from a small biopsy of autologous tissue. Transplantation 86 208-214. 

For skeletal defects, defects can be filled with autologous tissue or with biomaterials, which stay in place or are absorbed over time (Egli and Luginbuehl, 2012). Researchers expect nanocomposites to mimic the nanodimensional natural structure of tissues and generate the micro- and nanoenvironment which can induce related cells to form a competent tissue (Engler et al., 2006). Natural bone mainly consists... 

Principal therapies for bone defects and injuries include bone-tissue transplantation, artificial prosthesis implantation and tissue-engineering treatments. Autologous transplantation of cells and tissue is the gold standard (Healy and Guldberg, 2007). The scarcity of autologous tissue, however, limits its further application (Healy and Guldberg, 2007). Therefore, much effort has been put into the development of other approaches. 

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