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- noun biology, medicine The loss of
cells fromtissue
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Tissue engineers are enthusiastic about a technique called decellularization that involves using detergent to remove all of the cells from an organ, leaving a scaffold consisting of the fibrous material between cells.
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The researchers removed connective tissue and cycled the trachea 25 times through a "decellularization" detergent solution.
MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians 2008
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University of Minnesota researchers actually created this beating rat's heart using a process they call decellularization.
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GUPTA: Unlike stem cell research, which seeks to build a completely new organ, decellularization rebuilds an already existing organ.
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Fractional volume (Vv) of alveolar septa decreased, whereas Vv of air space and alveoli increased with decellularization.
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Figure 1: Perfusion decellularization of whole rat lungs.
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So far, researchers have used decellularization to build blood vessels, amongst other achievements.
Fight Aging! 2010
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By using a process called whole organ decellularization, scientists from the University of Minnesota ...
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2009
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By using a process called whole organ decellularization, scientists from the University of Minnesot ...
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(a) Photographs of a cadaveric rat lung, mounted on a decellularization apparatus allowing antegrade pulmonary arterial perfusion. pa, pulmonary artery; pv, pulmonary vein; tr, trachea; RUL, right upper lobe; RML, right middle lobe; LL, left lobe.
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