Engineers Turn Fat into Blood Vessels
Liposuction can provide the raw materials for growing new small-diameter blood vessels in the lab, researchers found.
Adult stem cells extracted from one's own fat tissue, then cultured into sheets, and rolled into tiny vessels performed as well as natural vessels on elastic contractility, reported Matthias Nollert, PhD, of the University of Oklahoma School of Chemical, Biological, and Materials Engineering in Norman, Okla., and colleagues./.../
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