Tissue Engineering

New tissue engineering data have been reported by scientists at University of Quebec

Published in Blood Weekly, November 25th, 2010

"Delayed or absence of vascularization is one of the major reasons for skin engraftment failure in patients with extensive burns. For such trauma victims, the best alternative to a split-thickness graft would be wound coverage with an autologous in vitro reconstructed skin (RS) combining dermis and epidermis with an appropriate microvascularization," scientists in Canada report.

"We have developed an endothelialized RS based on our self-assembly approach, which is generated from autologous cultured cells without any exogenous angiogenic growth factor or scaffold. After transplantation in athymic mice, an early inosculation between the graft and host vasculatures...

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