Self-Sustaining, Bioengineered Blood Vessels Could Replace Damaged Vessels in Patients (1 of 2) (IMAGE)
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An example of the bioengineered human acellular vessel. Images depict the microscopic architecture of each section (B-E). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Mar. 27, 2019, issue of <i>Science Translational Medicine</i>, 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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