Construction of tissue-engineered blood vessel stent using different materials: Characteristics and effectiveness
10.3969/j.issn.1673-8225.2010.16.027
- VernacularTitle:不同材料构建组织工程化血管支架:特点与效应
- Author:
Mingdi YIN
;
Zhengkai ZHAO
;
Jian ZHANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:
Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research
2010;14(16):2958-2962
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the characteristics and application prospect of tissue-engineered blood vessel stent materials. METHODS: Using "tissue engineering, tissue engineering blood vessel, intravascular stent" both in Chinese and English as key words to search documents published between January 1993 and October 2009. Literatures concerning biomaterials and tissue engineered blood vessel were included. Repetitive research or Meta analysis was excluded. After selection, 30 documents were included to discuss the kinds and characteristics of tissue-engineered blood vessel materials. RESULTS: Cellular tissue matrix is a kind of ideal material for intravascular engineering, which had widely applied in tissue-engineered stent. The fibrin-based stents are characterized by good biocompatibility, biodegradation, compatibility, as well as promote vascularization and tissue repair. Gelatin can implement its own "vascularization" due to less antigenicity and can be fully biodegraded. Accordingly, both the natural biomaterials and synthetic polymeric material have certain limitations, thus, the combination of these two materials would construct a tissue-engineered blood vessel stent that has good characteristics.Nano-modifled technology is hopeful to be applied in the future transplantation of tissue-engineered blood vessel stent.CONCLUSION: The tissue-engineered blood vessel developed rapidly in these years. However, as yet, there is not an ideal intravascular stent material. The natural biomaterials arose more attention, but the mechanical function of which is far from the stent requirement. Thus, to reach the aims of repair and reconstruction, new materials are the urgent need in tissue-engineered intravascular stent.
