Mechanical Properties of Tissue-Engineered Vascular Constructs Produced Arterial or Venous Cells

There is a clinical need for better blood vessel substitutes, as current surgical procedures are limited by the availability of suitable autologous vessels and suboptimal behavior of synthetic grafts in small caliber arterial graft (<5 mm) applications. The aim of the present study was to compare...

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Main Authors: Gauvin, Robert, Guillemette, Maxime D., Galbraith, Todd, Bourget, Jean-Michel, Larouche, Danielle, Marcoux, Hugo, Aube, David, Hayward, Cindy, Auger, Francois A., Germain, Lucie
Other Authors: Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66156