Current achievements and future perspectives in whole-organ bioengineering Rocky Tuan; Timothy O'Brien

Stem Cell Research and Therapy

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Peloso, Andrea ^a,b   Dhal, Abritee ^b   Zambon, Joao P ^b   Li, Peng ^b,c   Orlando, Giuseppe ^b   Atala, Anthony ^b   Soker, Shay ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NANTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY BIOENGINEERING; ALPHA 1 ANTITRYPSIN DEFICIENCY; BIOENGINEERING; BRONCHIECTASIS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; EMPHYSEMA; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HEART BIOENGINEERING; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEMODIALYSIS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY BIOENGINEERING; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; KUPFFER CELL; LIVER BIOENGINEERING; LIVER CELL; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS; PANCREAS BIOENGINEERING; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; PULMONARY VASCULAR DISEASE; REVIEW; SARCOIDOSIS; STELLATE CELL; TISSUE SCAFFOLD; WHOLE ORGAN BIOENGINEERING; CARDIAC MUSCLE; CYTOLOGY; CYTOPLASM; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HEART; LIVER; LUNG; PHYSIOLOGY; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TRANSPLANTATION;

PHLEUM PRATENSE;

BIOENGINEERING; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HEART; HUMANS; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; MYOCARDIUM; ORGANOIDS; PANCREAS; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 84930201745     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17576512     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13287-015-0089-y     Document Type: Review

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