title: Will regenerative medicine replace transplantation?
abstract: Recent groundbreaking advances in organ bioengineering and regeneration have provided evidence that regenerative medicine holds promise to dramatically improve the approach to organ transplantation. The two fields, however, share a common heritage. Alexis Carrel can be considered the father of both regenerative medicine and organ transplantation, and it is now clear that his legacy is equally applicable for the present and future generations of transplant and regenerative medicine investigators. In this review, we will briefly illustrate the interplay that should be established between these two complementary disciplines of health sciences. Although regenerative medicine has shown to the transplant field its potential, transplantation is destined to align with regenerative medicine and foster further progress probably more than either discipline alone. Organ bioengineering and regeneration technologies hold the promise to meet at the same time the two most urgent needs in organ transplantation, namely, the identification of a new, potentially inexhaustible source of organs and immunosuppression-free transplantation of tissues and organs.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Surgery, Section of Transplantation, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27157, USA. gorlando@wakehealth.edu
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Orlando
authors.forename: Shay
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Soker
authors.forename: Robert J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Stratta
authors.forename: Anthony
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Atala
mesh_terms: D057005:Bioengineering / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D007165:Immunosuppression Therapy / Q000639:trends; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000639:trends; D016377:Organ Transplantation / Q000639:trends*; D011788:Quality of Life; D044968:Regenerative Medicine / Q000639:trends*; D023822:Tissue Engineering / Q000639:trends; D014850:Waiting Lists
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