Perfusion decellularization of whole organs

Nature Protocols

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1451-1468

  Guyette, Jacques P ^a,b   Gilpin, Sarah E ^a,b   Charest, Jonathan M ^a   Tapias, Luis F ^b,c   Ren, Xi ^a,b   Ott, Harald C ^a,b,c,d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d HARVARD STEM CELL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETERGENT; TISSUE SCAFFOLD; SCLEROPROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; EX VIVO STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HEART PERFUSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INVESTIGATIVE PROCEDURES; KIDNEY PERFUSION; LUNG PERFUSION; NONHUMAN; ORGAN; PERFUSION DECELLULARIZATION; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; STANDARD; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE REGENERATION; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PERFUSION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; PROCEDURES; RAT; SWINE; TISSUE SCAFFOLD; VISCERA;

ANIMALS; DETERGENTS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; HUMANS; PERFUSION; PRESSURE; RATS; SWINE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; VISCERA;

EID: 84901830493     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2014.097     Document Type: Article

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