Sunday, June 9, 2013

In A Surgical First, Off-The-Shelf Bioengineered Vein Implanted In Kidney Patient

Surgeons Implant Bioengineered Vein:  Kidney Dialysis Patient First In U.S. To Receive Lab-Grown Blood Vessel.  Science Daily.  June 6, 2013.

(1)  The new vein is an ___________, __________ with no___________ that would cause organ rejection.

(2)  The vein is engineered by cultivating ______________ on a tubular scaffold.  The vessel is then cleansed of ________________________.

(3)  Translational technology is developing _______________________.

(4)  More than ___________ people in the United States required hemodialysis, which often necessitates a graft to _________________.

(5)  If the current trial is successful researchers aim to develop a graft for _______________  which are performed on nearly ____________ people a year.

(6)  The vein is the first _______________ that have transitioned into clinical evaluation.

(7)  A pulsing force introduced during the growth process is used to _______________________
_______________________________________________________________.

(8)  How did the researchers develop a unique approach to avoid rejection?

(9)  When implanted in animals, the vein grafts adopt ____________________.


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