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PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 362, Issue 1484, Pages 1293-1312Publisher
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2134
Keywords
elastic fibres; blood vessels; tissue engineering; elastin; fibrillin; fibulin
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- MRC [G0200246] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [G0200246] Funding Source: Medline
- Medical Research Council [G0200246] Funding Source: researchfish
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For the treatment of vascular disease, the major cause of death in Western society, there is an urgent need for tissue-engineered, biocompatible, small calibre artery substitutes that restore biological function. Vascular tissue engineering of such grafts involves the development of compliant synthetic or biomaterial scaffolds that incorporate vascular cells and extracellular matrix. Elastic fibres are major structural elements of arterial walls that can enhance vascular graft design and patency. In blood vessels, they endow vessels with the critical property of elastic recoil. They also influence vascular cell behaviour through direct interactions and by regulating growth factor activation. This review addresses physiological elastic fibre assembly and contributions to vessel structure and function, and how elastic fibre biology is now being exploited in small diameter vascular graft design.
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