The bridge between transplantation and regenerative medicine: Beginning a new Banff classification of tissue engineering pathology.

ABSTRACT: The science of regenerative medicine is arguably older than transplantation-the first major textbook was published in 1901-and a major regenerative medicine meeting took place in 1988, three years before the first Banff transplant pathology meeting. However, the subject of regenerative medicine/tissue engineering pathology has never received focused attention. Defining and classifying tissue engineering pathology is long overdue. In the next decades, the field of transplantation will enlarge at least tenfold, through a hybrid of tissue engineering combined with existing approaches to lessening the organ shortage. Gradually, transplantation pathologists will become tissue-(re-) engineering pathologists with enhanced skill sets to address concerns involving the use of bioengineered organs. W

SUBMITTER: Solez K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5817246 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature