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  • Major advance in tissue engineering growing heart valves

    11/15/2006 1:41:49 PM PST · by neverdem · 8 replies · 617+ views
    American Heart Association ^ | Nov. 14, 2006 | NA
    News Release 11.14.06A Abstract 1064/B17 CHICAGO, Nov. 14 -- For the first time, researchers have successfully used a rabbit's cells to grow heart-valve-shaped tissue inside the animal's body, according to research reported at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2006. The process may someday make it possible to grow rejection-proof replacement valves for humans using a person's own cells, a process called autologous tissue engineering. "It's the first fabrication of an autologous heart valve inside a living body," said Kyoko Hayashida, M.D., lead author of the study and a research fellow at the National Cardiovascular Center Research Institute in Osaka,...