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- Title
Pathological Process of Prompt Connection between Host and Donor Tissue Vasculature Causing Rapid Perfusion of the Engineered Donor Tissue after Transplantation.
- Authors
Sekiya, Sachiko; Morikawa, Shunichi; Ezaki, Taichi; Shimizu, Tatsuya
- Abstract
The shortage of donors for transplantation therapy is a serious issue worldwide. Tissue engineering is considered a potential solution to this problem. Connection and perfusion in engineered tissues after transplantation is vital for the survival of the transplanted tissue, especially for tissues requiring blood perfusion to receive nutrients, such as the heart. A myocardial cell sheet containing an endothelial cell network structure was fabricated in vitro using cell sheet technology. Transplantation of the three-dimensional (3D) tissue by layering myocardial sheets could ameliorate ischemic heart disease in a rat model. The endothelial cell network in the 3D tissue was able to rapidly connect to host vasculature and begin perfusion within 24 h after transplantation. In this review, we compare and discuss the engineered tissue–host vasculature connection process between tissue engineered constructs with hydrogels and cell sheets by histological analysis. This review provides information that may be useful for further improvements of in vivo engineered tissue vascularization techniques.
- Subjects
BLOOD vessels; CARDIOVASCULAR system; ORGAN donors; ORGAN donation; TRANSPLANTATION of organs, tissues, etc.
- Publication
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2018, Vol 19, Issue 12, p4102
- ISSN
1661-6596
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/ijms19124102