Phenotypic and functional characterization of in vivo tissue engineered smooth muscle from normal and pathological bladders.

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PURPOSE: The engineering of bladder tissue involves obtaining a biopsy from a host, expanding the cells, seeding them onto a matrix and implanting the cell-matrix composite back into the host. Clinically, cells used for these techniques may be harvested from abnormal bladders. It is not known whether abnormal bladder cells may be engineered into functionally normal tissue. We investigated the phenotypic and...

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