[Advances of construction of tissue engineered blood vessels].
OBJECTIVE
To discuss the approaches of tissue engineered blood vessels (TEBV) reconstruction.


METHODS
The recent literatures about TEBV were widely reviewed. We summarized various types of biomaterials served as scaffold for TEBV and evaluated the construction model of TEBV. And the biological properties of some TEBV were compared.


RESULTS
Although the final model of construction of TEBV was not clear, reports in the last two years had shown several important advances in this exciting field.


CONCLUSIONS
Mimicry of some or all of the properties of three layers of natural healthy blood vessels has been the strategy of all TEBV approaches.
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College of Life Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing Jiangsu, P. R. China 210093.
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D001672:Biocompatible Materials; D001698:Biomedical Engineering / Q000379:methods; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation; D001808:Blood Vessels / Q000166:cytology*; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D005109:Extracellular Matrix; D023822:Tissue Engineering
D001672:Biocompatible Materials