News tagged with donor tissue
Scientists scan the human heart to create digital anatomical library
On April 18th JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments) will publish a new video article by Dr. Paul A Iaizzo demonstrating the anatomical reconstruction of an active human heart. The research uses contrast-computed tomography (C ...
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Apr 18, 2013 |
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Antioxidant improves donated liver survival rate to more than 90 percent
Researchers from Italy have found that the antioxidant, N-acetylcysteine (NAC), when injected prior to harvesting of the liver, significantly improves graft survival following transplantation. Results published in the February ...
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Feb 25, 2013 |
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Safeguards needed for tissue donors
vast collections of human tissue samples that scientists hope will lead to new treatments for diseases – have a right to basic information about how their donations may be used, a Michigan State University ...
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Jan 28, 2013 |
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New research refutes claim iPSCs are prone to immune response
(Medical Xpress)—Researchers in Japan have injected induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from mice back into genetically identical mice and report that doing so caused no immune reaction. This contradicts the results ...
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Jan 10, 2013 |
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UCLA performs first 'breathing lung' transplant in US
First there was the "heart in a box," a revolutionary experimental technology that allows donor hearts to be delivered to transplant recipients warm and beating rather than frozen in an ice cooler.
Surgery
Nov 26, 2012 |
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Analyzing the 'Facebook Effect' on organ and tissue donation
When Facebook introduced a feature that enables people to register to become organ and tissue donors, thousands did so, dwarfing any previous donation initiative, write Blair L. Sadler and Alfred M. Sadler, Jr., in a commentary in Bioe ...
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Sep 11, 2012 |
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Engineered pancreatic tissues could lead to better transplants for diabetics
Technion researchers have built pancreatic tissue with insulin-secreting cells, surrounded by a three-dimensional network of blood vessels. The engineered tissue could pave the way for improved tissue transplants to treat ...
Diabetes
Aug 15, 2012 |
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Stem cells can be harvested long after death: study
Some stem cells can lay dormant for more than two weeks in a dead person and then be revived to divide into new, functioning cells, scientists in France said Tuesday.
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Jun 12, 2012 |
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Japanese scientists show 'new' liver generation using hepatocyte cell transplantation
Researchers in Japan have found that hepatocytes, cells comprising the main tissue of the liver and involved in protein synthesis and storage, can assist in tissue engineering and create a "new liver system" in mouse models ...
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Jun 11, 2012 |
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Lungs clothed in fresh cells offer new hope for transplant patients
For patients suffering from severe pulmonary diseases including emphysema, lung cancer or fibrosis, transplantation of healthy lung tissue may offer the best chance for survival. The surgical procedure, however, ...
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Feb 01, 2012 |
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An earlier diagnosis to avoid kidney transplants
An analytical technique using high brilliance infrared light produced by the SOLEIL synchrotron has been developed by teams from the CNRS, Paris Sud University, Tenon Hospital in Paris, and the Stoke-on-Trent ...
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Nov 29, 2011 |
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Brain-collection practices on trial in Maine
(AP) -- The practices of a prestigious medical research institute that studies schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are on trial in Maine, where the organization collected at least 99 brains from organ donors.
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Sep 22, 2011 |
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Adult stem cells take root in livers and repair damage
Johns Hopkins researchers have demonstrated that human liver cells derived from adult cells coaxed into an embryonic state can engraft and begin regenerating liver tissue in mice with chronic liver damage.
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May 11, 2011 |
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