A useful marker for evaluating tissue-engineered products: gap-junctional communication for assessment of the tumor-promoting action and disruption of cell differentiation in tissue-engineered products.

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An in vitro system for evaluating the safety of tissue-engineered products is a convenient because of its rapidity and low cost. On the basis of recent studies, intercellular channels called gap-junctions are considered to play an important role on the tumor-promotion stage during the tumorigenesis induced by polyurethanes. Further, we also demonstrate the significance of the intercellular communication during...

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