Tissue Engineering

Growth Factors In Plastic Encourage Blood Vessel Formation

Published in Blood Weekly, December 6th, 2001

A spongy plastic material impregnated with two kinds of growth factor has been shown to encourage the formation of healthy new blood vessels in living rats, according to a tissue engineering research team at the University of Michigan.

The ability to grow new blood vessels in a controlled fashion could lead to better treatments for coronary artery disease, to speed wound healing, or to help diabetic patients who are suffering from peripheral vascular disease.

"This new approach allows us to deliver a controlled dose of growth factors to a specific tissue," said David J. Mooney, a professor of biologic and materials science in U-M's College of...

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