Research and prospect of tissue engineered blood vessels
- VernacularTitle:组织工程血管的研究与展望
- Author:
Xin LI
;
Chang SHU
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:
Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research
2007;0(33):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
The tissue engineering technology that developed in the 1980s brings a hope for the regeneration of human organs. It is feasible to construct by-pass vessels, which have no immune resistance but are capable of anticoagulation. At present, a huge number of researches have provided the necessary basis for the construction. However, there are still some difficulties on the points of induction and proliferation of endothelial cells, development of new materials for scaffold and co-culture of seed cells in scaffold. These difficulties have become the bottle neck of tissue engineered blood vessels. The tissue engineering vessels are nowadays absent in clinical practice. With the progress in researches of tissue engineering, it is strongly believed that human organs and tissues can be constructed using tissue engineering technology, thus satisfying the donors of organ transplantation.
