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SUBMITTER: Charbonnier B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6724474 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Charbonnier Baptiste B Baradaran Aslan A Sato Daisuke D Alghamdi Osama O Zhang Zishuai Z Zhang Yu-Ling YL Gbureck Uwe U Gilardino Mirko M Harvey Edward E Makhoul Nicholas N Barralet Jake J
Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) 20190701 17
The development of alternatives to vascular bone grafts, the current clinical standard for the surgical repair of large segmental bone defects still today represents an unmet medical need. The subcutaneous formation of transplantable bone has been successfully achieved in scaffolds axially perfused by an arteriovenous loop (AVL) and seeded with bone marrow stromal cells or loaded with inductive proteins. Although demonstrating clinical potential, AVL-based approaches involve complex microsurgica ...[more]