FREE NEJM E-TOC    HOME   |   SUBSCRIBE   |   CURRENT ISSUE   |   PAST ISSUES   |   COLLECTIONS   |   Search Term  Advanced Search

Sign in | Get NEJM's E-Mail Table of Contents — Free | Subscribe

Previous Volume 344:1547-1548 May 17, 2001 Number 20 Next

	Since this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

	Full Text PDF Purchase this article Add to Personal Archive Add to Citation Manager Notify a Friend E-mail When Cited Related Article by Vacanti, C. A. PubMed Citation

For nearly two decades, surgeons have used cultured autologous cells for reconstructive surgery. The most notable successful application involved the removal of a specimen of skin from a badly burned patient, expansion of the keratinocytes in vitro, and subsequent application of the cultured epidermal autografts onto the burn wounds to resurface the skin.¹ A recent report in the Journal described successful reconstruction of an occluded pulmonary artery in a young girl with a tissue-engineered vessel graft.² Advances in cellular biology and biomaterials science have been brought together in a new discipline called "tissue engineering," which has its own research centers, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

References

This article has been cited by other articles:

• Kobayashi, T., Watanabe, H., Yanagawa, T., Tsutsumi, S., Kayakabe, M., Shinozaki, T., Higuchi, H., Takagishi, K. (2005). Motility and growth of human bone-marrow mesenchymal stem cells during ex vivo expansion in autologous serum. J Bone Joint Surg Br 87-B: 1426-1433 [Abstract] [Full Text]