Stem Cell Transplantation

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Stem Cell Transplantation
Stem Cell Transplantation

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Stem Cells Will Eventually Revolutionize Organ Transplants, And This Is How


The critical issue with organ engineering outside of the body is the limited availability of human cells, a suitable matrix with the same composition and architecture of the target tissue, and the ability to maintain the viability of the organ without a blood supply. The issue of maintaining the survival of engineered organs is addressable using bioreactors and chemically-defined medium (containing cofactors, nutrients, and growth factors capable of sustaining the viability of the target cell type(s)), and researchers have explored stem cells and engineered extracellular matrices (ECMs) to address the build tissue engineered organs outside the body.

Pluripotent stem cells provide…

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 Stem Cells Will Eventually Revolutionize Organ Transplants, And This Is How

Pluripotent stem cells provide a potentially unlimited source of human cells (due to their unlimited growth potential) with which to derive most of the cell types of the body (since these cell types are pluripotent). The predominant organs of interest for transplant surgeons is heart, lung, liver, and kidney given the limited supply of healthy donor organs and the long wait times.

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