Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

Multi-stage bioengineering of a layered oesophagus with in vitro expanded muscle and epithelial adult progenitors

  • Luca Urbani,
  • Carlotta Camilli,
  • Demetra-Ellie Phylactopoulos,
  • Claire Crowley,
  • Dipa Natarajan,
  • Federico Scottoni,
  • Panayiotis Maghsoudlou,
  • Conor J. McCann,
  • Alessandro Filippo Pellegata,
  • Anna Urciuolo,
  • Koichi Deguchi,
  • Sahira Khalaf,
  • Salvatore Ferdinando Aruta,
  • Maria Cristina Signorelli,
  • David Kiely,
  • Edward Hannon,
  • Matteo Trevisan,
  • Rui Rachel Wong,
  • Marc Olivier Baradez,
  • Dale Moulding,
  • Alex Virasami,
  • Asllan Gjinovci,
  • Stavros Loukogeorgakis,
  • Sara Mantero,
  • Nikhil Thapar,
  • Neil Sebire,
  • Simon Eaton,
  • Mark Lowdell,
  • Giulio Cossu,
  • Paola Bonfanti,
  • Paolo De Coppi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06385-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Combining decellularised scaffolds with patient-derived cells holds promise for bioengineering of functional tissues. Here the authors develop a two-stage approach to engineer an oesophageal graft that retains the structural organisation of native oesophagus.