Chapter title |
Tissue bioengineering and artificial organs.
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Chapter number | 20 |
Book title |
Stem Cell Transplantation
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Published in |
Advances in experimental medicine and biology, March 2012
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DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4614-2098-9_20 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-1-4614-2097-2, 978-1-4614-2098-9
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Authors |
Llames S, García E, Otero Hernández J, Meana A, Sara Llames, Eva García, Jesús Otero Hernández, Álvaro Meana, Llames, Sara, García, Eva, Otero Hernández, Jesús, Meana, Álvaro |
Abstract |
The scarcity of organs and tissues for transplant and the need of immunosuppressive drugs to avoid rejection constitute two reasons that justify organ and tissue production in the laboratory. Tissue engineering based tissues (TE) could allow to regenerate the whole organ from a fragment or even to produce several organs from an organ donor for grafting purposes. TE is based in: (1) the ex vivo expansion of cells, (2) the seeding of these expanded cells in tridimensional structures that mimic physiological conditions and, (3) grafting the prototype. In order to graft big structures it is necessary that the organ or tissue produced "ex vivo" bears a vascular tree to ensure the nutrition of its deep layers. At present, no technology has been developed to provide this vascular tree to TE derived products. Thus, these tissues must be thin enough to acquire nutrients during the first days by diffusion from surrounding tissues. This fact constitutes nowadays the greatest limitation of technologies for organ development in the laboratory.In this chapter, all these problems and their possible solutions are commented. Also, the present status of TE techniques in the regeneration of different organ systems is reviewed. |
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