Artificial blood vessels built from vascular endothelial and smooth muscle cells using cell-selective adhesion peptides bound to fibroin: Nagoya University

The group of Ryuji KATO at Nagoya University is using collagen vitrogel deposited on sericin to bind vascular endothelial and smooth muscle cells selectively. Preliminary animal experiments indicate that intima thickening and thrombus formation can be prevented in such grafts.

Japanese Society for Biotechnology Annual Meeting, Kagoshima, October 27, 2015, Poster 1P-223

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