The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 138, Issue 3 , Pages 586-593 , September 2009

Structural and morphologic evaluation of a novel detergent–enzymatic tissue-engineered tracheal tubular matrix

  • Philipp Jungebluth

      Affiliations

    • Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Hospital Clinic, Fundació Clínic, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), CIBER Enfermedades Respiratorias, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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  • Tetsuhiko Go, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Hospital Clinic, Fundació Clínic, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), CIBER Enfermedades Respiratorias, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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  • Adelaide Asnaghi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
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  • Silvia Bellini, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
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  • Jaume Martorell, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Immunology, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain
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  • Chiara Calore, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
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  • Luca Urbani

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
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  • Helmut Ostertag, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Klinikum Hannover, Hannover, Germany
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  • Sara Mantero, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
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  • Maria Teresa Conconi, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
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  • Paolo Macchiarini, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Hospital Clinic, Fundació Clínic, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), CIBER Enfermedades Respiratorias, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for reprints: Paolo Macchiarini, MD, PhD, Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Hospital Clinico de Barcelona, University of Barcelona, c. Villarroel 170 E-08036 Barcelona, Spain.

Received 18 June 2008 ,Revised 2 September 2008 ,Accepted 12 September 2008.

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 Read at the Eighty-eighth Annual Meeting of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery, San Diego, Calif, May 10–14, 2008.

 Supported by the Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Fondo de Investigación Sanitaria (FIS) (PI050987).

PII: S0022-5223(09)00772-7

doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2008.09.085

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 138, Issue 3 , Pages 586-593 , September 2009

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