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Review
. 2004 Nov;5(11):1025-8.
doi: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400287.

Building organs piece by piece. Accomplishments and future perspectives in tissue engineering

Alexandra Moreno-Borchart
Review

Building organs piece by piece. Accomplishments and future perspectives in tissue engineering

Alexandra Moreno-Borchart. EMBO Rep. 2004 Nov.

Abstract

Accomplishments and future perspectives in tissue engineering

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Figure 1
Shortage of cadaveric organs in Germany. Data obtained from Eurotransplant (www.eurotransplant.nl/statistics). Numbers for transplanted organs refer to cadaveric organs only
Figure 2
Figure 2
The three pillars of tissue engineering
Figure 3
Figure 3
Number of publications related to tissue engineering over the last decade. PubMed was searched for publications containing the phrase 'tissue engineering'. European numbers refer to papers published in the 15 countries of the EU before the expansion
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