Print me an organ! Why we are not there yet

WL Ng, CK Chua, YF Shen - Progress in Polymer Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Bioprinting offers a highly-automated and advanced manufacturing platform that facilitates
the deposition of bio-inks (living cells, biomaterials and growth factors) in a scalable and …

Role of TLRs and DAMPs in allograft inflammation and transplant outcomes

F Braza, S Brouard, S Chadban… - Nature Reviews …, 2016 - nature.com
Graft inflammation impairs the induction of solid organ transplant tolerance and enhances
acute and chronic rejection. Elucidating the mechanisms by which inflammation is induced …

Vascularized composite allotransplantation: current standards and novel approaches to prevent acute rejection and chronic allograft deterioration

M Kueckelhaus, S Fischer, M Seyda… - Transplant …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The advent of more potent immunosuppressants led to the first successful human upper
extremity transplantation in 1998. At this time,> 100 upper extremity transplants, 30 face …

Transplantation of bioprinted tissues and organs: Technical and clinical challenges and future perspectives

DJ Ravnic, AN Leberfinger, SV Koduru… - Annals of …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Abstract Three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting is a revolutionary technology in building living
tissues and organs with precise anatomic control and cellular composition. Despite the great …

Organ preservation into the 2020s: the era of dynamic intervention

A Petrenko, M Carnevale, A Somov, J Osorio… - Transfusion Medicine …, 2019 - karger.com
Organ preservation has been of major importance ever since transplantation developed into
a global clinical activity. The relatively simple procedures were developed on a basic …

β cell replacement therapy: the next 10 years

C Schuetz, T Anazawa, SE Cross, L Labriola… - …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
β cell replacement with either pancreas or islet transplantation has progressed immensely
over the last decades with current 1-and 5-year insulin independence rates of approximately …

Potential applications of extracellular vesicles in solid organ transplantation

C Grange, L Bellucci, B Bussolati, A Ranghino - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) play an important role in cell-to-cell communication by delivering
coding and non-coding RNA species and proteins to target cells. Recently, the therapeutic …

High-throughput functional genomics identifies regulators of primary human beta cell proliferation

K Robitaille, JL Rourke, JE McBane, A Fu… - Journal of Biological …, 2016 - ASBMB
The expansion of cells for regenerative therapy will require the genetic dissection of
complex regulatory mechanisms governing the proliferation of non-transformed human cells …

[D-Ala2, D-Leu5] Enkephalin Improves Liver Preservation During Normothermic Ex Vivo Perfusion

EW Beal, JL Kim, BF Reader, C Akateh… - Journal of Surgical …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Meeting the metabolic demands of donor livers using normothermic ex vivo
liver perfusion (NEVLP) preservation technology is challenging. The delta opioid agonist [D …

The release of microRNA‐122 during liver preservation is associated with early allograft dysfunction and graft survival after transplantation

JW Selten, CJ Verhoeven, V Heedfeld… - Liver …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Early allograft dysfunction (EAD) after liver transplantation (LT) is associated with inferior
graft survival. EAD is more prevalent in grafts from donation after circulatory death (DCD) …