From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Fri Jun 06 2003 - 08:10:03 MDT
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/06/030606080223.htm
<<The results of the Duke experiments were published today (June 6, 2003) in
EMBO Reports, the journal of the European Molecular Biology Organization.
"After introducing the human cells with hTERT, we found that the resulting
cells not only proliferated long beyond their normal lifespan, but retained
characteristics of normal smooth muscle cells," Niklason explained. "Furthermore,
using these smooth muscle cells, we were able to engineer mechanically robust
human arteries, a crucial step toward creating arteries for bypass patients."
This is the first time arteries have been grown from non-neonatal vascular
cells, the researchers said. This achievement is important, they continued,
since the goal is to engineer arteries that will resist immunological attack, so
they must be grown from cells taken from the actual patients who will
ultimately receive the arteries. >>
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