What's really significant about our study is that we are using human cells that can be obtained from blood or bone marrow rather than removing and using fully developed blood vessels
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What's really significant about our study is that we are using human cells that can be obtained from blood or bone marrow rather than removing and using fully developed blood vessels
It could certainly assist in the connection of other engineered organs to the body's blood supply
Although this approach is not yet suitable for clinical use, it is interesting that they have demonstrated you have all the elements you need to create a functional network of capillaries from a small amount of blood.
What we are most interested in right now is speeding up the vascularization (the formation of blood vessels) ... We see very good and extensive vasculature in seven days and we'd like to see that in 24 or 48 hours. If you have an ischemic tissue, it's dying tissue, so the faster you can establish blood flow the better.
What we are most interested in right now is speeding up the vascularization - the formation of blood vessels
We are proving the concept in mice who are compromised so that they don't reject human cells