Re: ARTERIES Engineered-Non-Neonatal

From: Jeff Davis (jrd1415@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Jun 06 2003 - 13:25:46 MDT

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    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:
    >
    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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