Abstract
After being initially hailed as the ultimate solution to end-stage organ failure, such as end-stage liver disease (ESLD), engineering of vascularized tissues has stalled because of the need for a well-structured circulatory system that can maintain the cells to be seeded inside the construct.
In the field of regenerative medicine, decellularized scaffolds, derived mainly from various non-autologous whole organs, have become an emerging treatment technique to overcome this obstacle. As a result of significant progress made in recent years, organogenesis through whole-organ decellularization scaffolds may now become more feasible than ever before. In this chapter, we describe in detail the necessary steps for liver organogenesis using a decellularized acellular scaffold (DAS), seed cell isolation, and recellularization in a bioreactor-like culture system. This new technique to re-engineer organs may have major implications for the fields of drug discovery, organ transplantation, and ultimately regenerative medicine.
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) grant 81570573 to L.H.B. and University Southwestern Hospital grant SHW2014 LC01 to L.H.B.
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Yang, W., Xia, R., Zhang, Y., Zhang, H., Bai, L. (2017). Decellularized Liver Scaffold for Liver Regeneration. In: Turksen, K. (eds) Decellularized Scaffolds and Organogenesis. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1577. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/7651_2017_53
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