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Nondestructive Monitoring of Degradable Scaffold-Based Tissue-Engineered Blood Vessel Development Using Optical Coherence Tomography
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Bioengineering
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JoVE Journal Bioengineering
Nondestructive Monitoring of Degradable Scaffold-Based Tissue-Engineered Blood Vessel Development Using Optical Coherence Tomography
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11:12 min

October 03, 2018

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Chapters

  • 00:04Title
  • 00:52Degradable Polyglycolic Acid (PGA) Scaffold-based Tissue-engineered Vessels Culture
  • 05:41Performing Optical Imaging with OCT and Image Analysis
  • 08:10Harvest of the TEBVs and Tissue Processing
  • 09:14Results: Characterization of Biodegradable Polymeric Scaffold-Based TEBVs and Remodeling Process through OCT Imaging
  • 10:36Conclusion

Summary

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A step by step protocol for nondestructive and long-period monitoring the process of vascular remodeling and scaffold degradation in real-time culture of biodegradable polymeric scaffold-based tissue-engineered blood vessels with pulsatile stimulation using optical coherence tomography is described here.

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