Other approaches to fighting cardiovascular disease: stem cells and engineered tissue.
Technologies such as vessels and cardiac patches grown in the laboratory are being developed to treat heart disease. This article reviews the progress so far with these and other regenerative-medicine products.
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Regenerative Medicine Bioprocessing Unit, Advanced Centre for Biochemical Engineering, University College London, UK. chris.mason@ucl.ac.uk
D000818:Animals; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D001808:Blood Vessels / Q000166:cytology / Q000637:transplantation; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D006801:Humans; D032342:Muscle Cells / Q000637:transplantation*; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000166:cytology; D018919:Neovascularization, Physiologic; D012038:Regeneration; D033581:Stem Cell Transplantation; D023822:Tissue Engineering