2016
Engineered Tissue–Stent Biocomposites as Tracheal Replacements
Zhao L, Sundaram S, Le AV, Huang AH, Zhang J, Hatachi G, Beloiartsev A, Caty MG, Yi T, Leiby K, Gard A, Kural MH, Gui L, Rocco KA, Sivarapatna A, Calle E, Greaney A, Urbani L, Maghsoudlou P, Burns A, DeCoppi P, Niklason LE. Engineered Tissue–Stent Biocomposites as Tracheal Replacements. Tissue Engineering Part A 2016, 22: 1086-1097. PMID: 27520928, PMCID: PMC5312617, DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2016.0132.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2011
Readily Available Tissue-Engineered Vascular Grafts
Dahl SL, Kypson AP, Lawson JH, Blum JL, Strader JT, Li Y, Manson RJ, Tente WE, DiBernardo L, Hensley MT, Carter R, Williams TP, Prichard HL, Dey MS, Begelman KG, Niklason LE. Readily Available Tissue-Engineered Vascular Grafts. Science Translational Medicine 2011, 3: 68ra9. PMID: 21289273, DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3001426.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTissue-engineered vascular graftsVascular graftsMechanical propertiesSynthetic graftsAutologous tissueCoronary artery bypassCanine smooth muscle cellsPolyglycolic acid scaffoldsTissue engineeringHuman vascular graftsSmooth muscle cellsSynthetic vascular graftsArtery bypassSuch patientsArteriovenous accessArterial bypassHuman blood vesselsCardiovascular diseaseExcellent patencyBaboon modelIntimal hyperplasiaDog modelCellular materialPatientsGraft