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Experimental Approaches to Tissue Engineering
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1Division of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA. panos001@umn.edu
Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
|May 31, 2012
Abstract:
The first-in-man bioengineered artificial tracheobronchial transplant consisting of a synthetic scaffold and autologous bone marrow-derived mesenchymal cells was recently reported. Extensive evaluation of the patient before and after transplant provides some insight into the potential mechanisms of stem cell mobilization and tracheal tissue regeneration.
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