Self-Sustaining, Bioengineered Blood Vessels Could Replace Damaged Vessels in Patients (2 of 2) (IMAGE)

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Self-Sustaining, Bioengineered Blood Vessels Could Replace Damaged Vessels in Patients (2 of 2)

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The researchers implanted the human acellular vessel (yellow arrows) into the forearm of a patient with end-stage renal failure. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Mar. 27, 2019, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by R.D Kirkton at Humacyte Inc. in Durham, NC; and colleagues was titled, "Bioengineered human acellular vessels recellularize and evolve into living blood vessels after human implantation."

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R.D. Kirkton <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine</i> (2019)

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