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Umbilical cord blood derived endothelial progenitor cells for tissue engineering of vascular grafts.
The Annals of thoracic surgery - 1 Dec 2004
Schmidt Dörthe, Breymann Christian, Weber Alberto, Guenter Christina I, Neuenschwander Stefan, Zund Gregor, Turina Marko, Hoerstrup Simon P
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BACKGROUND: A substantial limitation regarding present pediatric cardiac surgery is the lack of appropriate materials for the repair of congenital defects. To address this shortcoming, tissue engineering is a scientific field that aims at in vitro fabrication of living autologous grafts with the capacity of growth, repair, and regeneration. Here we focused on tissue engineered vascular grafts using human...
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