Valvulogenesis of a living, innervated pulmonary root induced by an acellular scaffold.

ABSTRACT: Heart valve disease is a major cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide with no effective medical therapy and no ideal valve substitute emulating the extremely sophisticated functions of a living heart valve. These functions influence survival and quality of life. This has stimulated extensive attempts at tissue engineering "living" heart valves. These attempts utilised combinations of allogeneic/ autologous cells and biological scaffolds with practical, regulatory, and ethical issues. In situ regeneration depends on scaffolds that attract, house and instruct cells and promote connective tissue formation. We describe a surgical, tissue-engineered, anatomically precise, novel off-the-shelf, acellular, synthetic scaffold inducing a rapid process of morphogenesis involving relevant cell typ

SUBMITTER: Yacoub MH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10560219 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature