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Perspectives on whole-organ assembly: moving toward transplantation on demandAlejandro Soto-Gutierrez
Department of Pathology, Transplantation Section of Children s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
J Clin Invest 122:3817-23. 2012..In this article, we summarize the most recent advances in this field and provide a perspective on the challenges of translating this promising new technology into a proven regenerative therapy...
A whole-organ regenerative medicine approach for liver replacementAlejandro Soto-Gutierrez
Transplantation Section, Department of Surgery, Children s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Center for Innovative Regenerative Therapies, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Tissue Eng Part C Methods 17:677-86. 2011..The present study investigates a new, minimally disruptive method for whole-organ liver decellularization and three different cell reseeding strategies to engineer functional liver tissue...
Reactive bone marrow stromal cells attenuate systemic inflammation via sTNFR1Hiroshi Yagi
Department of Surgery, Center for Engineering in Medicine and Surgical Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Shriners Hospitals for Children, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Mol Ther 18:1857-64. 2010..These results suggest that improvements of inflammatory responses in animal models after local transplantation of MSCs are at least, in part, explained by the NFκB-dependent secretion of sTNFR1 by MSCs...
The microenvironment in hepatocyte regeneration and function in rats with advanced cirrhosisLiping Liu
Department of Surgery, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA
Hepatology 55:1529-39. 2012....
Liver repopulation and regeneration: new approaches to old questionsAndrew W Duncan
Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Curr Opin Organ Transplant 18:197-202. 2013....
Cellular therapy and bioartificial approaches to liver replacementJason A Wertheim
Department of Surgery, Comprehensive Transplant Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Curr Opin Organ Transplant 17:235-40. 2012..Despite efforts to expand the donor pool, mortality of patients waiting for a liver remains high due to the shortage of donor organs. Herein, we discuss options for liver replacement that are currently under development...
Human immune reactivity against liver sinusoidal endothelial cells from GalTα(1,3)GalT-deficient pigsDaan van Poll
Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the Shriners Hospitals for Children, Center for Engineering in Medicine, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Cell Transplant 19:783-9. 2010..Although insufficient to inhibit xenogeneic reactivity completely, transgenic GalT KO expression on pig livers might contribute to a successful application of clinical xenotransplantation in combination with other protective strategies...
Bone marrow mesenchymal stromal cells attenuate organ injury induced by LPS and burnHiroshi Yagi
Department of Surgery, Center for Engineering in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Shriners Hospitals for Children, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Cell Transplant 19:823-30. 2010..These data suggest that MSCs emerge as key regulators of immune/inflammatory responses in vivo and as attractive candidates for cell-based treatments for systemic inflammatory-based disorders...
Cell delivery: from cell transplantation to organ engineeringAlejandro Soto-Gutierrez
Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the Shriners Hospitals for Children, Center for Engineering in Medicine, Boston, MA 76104, USA
Cell Transplant 19:655-65. 2010....
Differentiation and transplantation of human embryonic stem cell-derived hepatocytesHesham Basma
Department of Surgery, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Gastroenterology 136:990-9. 2009..Embryonic stem cells are pluripotent, potentially can differentiate into any cell type, and therefore could be developed as a source of human hepatocytes...
