Modular Small Diameter Vascular Grafts with Bioactive Functionalities.

We report the fabrication of a novel type of artificial small diameter blood vessels, termed biomimetic tissue-engineered blood vessels (bTEBV), with a modular composition. They are composed of a hydrogel scaffold consisting of two negatively charged natural polymers, alginate and a modified chitosa...

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Main Authors: Meik Neufurth, Xiaohong Wang, Emad Tolba, Bernhard Dorweiler, Heinz C Schröder, Thorben Link, Bärbel Diehl-Seifert, Werner E G Müller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4512703?pdf=render