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Tissue-engineered heart valves. Autologous valve leaflet replacement study in a lamb model.

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1996

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Toshiharu Shinoka, P X, Dominique Shum‐Tim, Christopher K. Breuer, Robert A. Cusick, Gregor Zünd, Robert Langer, J P Vacanti, J E Mayer
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Abstract

In the tissue-engineered heart valve leaflet, transplanted autologous cells generated a proper matrix on the polymer scaffold in a physiological environment at a period of 8 weeks after implantation.