Vascular graft tissue engineering

Heart valve and vascular graft tissue engineering... 

Chuang TH et al (2009) Polyphenol-stabilized tubular elastin scaffolds for tissue engineered vascular grafts. Tissue Eng Part A 15(10) 2837-2851... 

Berglund JD, Nerem RM and Sambanis A. Incorporation of intact elastin scaffolds in tissue-engineered collagen-based vascular grafts. Tissue Eng. 10 1526-1535,2004. 

Other recently developed biomaterials will be used for quite different purposes in tissue engineering such as artificial pancreas and liver, artificial skin, nerve regeneration, gene therapy vascular grafts, cornea replacement and others.3... 

Hubbell JA, Massia SP, Desai NP et al (1991) Endothelial cell-selective materials for tissue engineering in the vascular graft via a new receptor. Biotechnology 9(6) 568-572... 

Biodegradable polymers have found other applications that have been commercialised or are under investigation. Anastomosis rings have been developed as an alternative to suturing for intestinal resection. Tissue staples have also replaced sutures in certain procedures. Other applications currently under scrutiny include ligating clips, vascular grafts, stents, and tissue engineering scaffolds. 

Zhang X et al (2009) Dynamic culture conditions to generate silk-based tissue-engineered vascular grafts. Biomaterials 30( 19) 3213—3223... 

Schmidt D, Breymann C, Weber A, et al. (2004). Umbilical cord blood derived endothelial progenitor cells for tissue engineering of vascular grafts. Ann. Thorac. Surg. 78 2094-2098. 

Prechtel and co-workers also focused on the construction of tissue engineered, small-caliber vascular grafts that mimicked the structure of the host coronary artery. The design employed biodegradable polymeric fibers in a braided construct utilizing an inner and outer layer with fiber orientations similar to those of the native coronary artery to enable matched mechanical... 

Prechtel, E., Yoimg, K., Goldman, S. et al.. Design, synthesis, and mechanical characterization of a resorbable composite small diameter vascular graft as a tissue engineered construct, Trans. Soc. Biomater., 28, 200, 2002. 

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