Engineering small-caliber vascular grafts from collagen filaments and nanofibers with comparable mechanical properties to native vessels

At the present time, there is no successful synthetic, off-the-shelf small-caliber vascular graft (

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Published in:Biofabrication 2019-05, Vol.11 (3), p.035020-035020
Main Authors: Zhang, Fan, Xie, Yu, Celik, Hakan, Akkus, Ozan, Bernacki, Susan H, King, Martin W
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animals
Biomechanical Phenomena
Blood Vessel Prosthesis
Blood Vessels - physiology
Cell Adhesion - drug effects
Cell Proliferation - drug effects
Collagen - pharmacology
collagen nanofibers
electrochemically aligned collagen (ELAC) filament
electrospinning
endothelialization
knitting
mechanical properties
Mice
Nanofibers - chemistry
Polyesters - chemistry
Rats
small caliber vascular graft
Sutures
Tissue Engineering - methods
Tissue Scaffolds - chemistry
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Summary:At the present time, there is no successful synthetic, off-the-shelf small-caliber vascular graft (
ISSN:1758-5090
1758-5082
1758-5090
DOI:10.1088/1758-5090/ab15ce