Artificial lymphatic drainage systems for vascularized microfluidic scaffolds
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Artificial lymphatic drainage systems for vascularized microfluidic scaffolds.
The formation of a stably perfused microvasculature continues to be a major challenge in tissue engineering. Previous work has suggested the importance of a sufficiently large transmural pressure in maintaining vascular stability and perfusion. Here we show that a system of empty channels that provides a drainage function analogous to that of lymphatic microvasculature in vivo can stabilize vas...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1549-3296
DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.34524