From: Jeff Davis (jrd1415@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Jun 06 2003 - 13:25:46 MDT
VERY interesting article. Use the link and read the
whole thing.
Best, Jeff Davis
"Everything's hard till you know how to do it."
Ray Charles
--- Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/06/030606080223.htm
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> <<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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