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Review
. 2015 Jul-Sep;7(3):188-94.
doi: 10.4103/0975-7406.160013.

Applications of regenerative medicine in organ transplantation

Aditya Jain  1 , Ramta Bansal  2
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Review

Applications of regenerative medicine in organ transplantation

Aditya Jain et al. J Pharm Bioallied Sci. 2015 Jul-Sep.

Abstract

A worldwide shortage of organs for clinical implantation establishes the need to bring forward and test new technologies that will help in solving the problem. The concepts of regenerative medicine hold the potential for augmenting organ function or repairing damaged organ or allowing regeneration of deteriorated organs and tissue. Researchers are exploring possible regenerative medicine applications in organ transplantation so that coming together of the two fields can benefit each other. The present review discusses the strategies that are being implemented to regenerate or bio-engineer human organs for clinical purposes. It also highlights the limitations of the regenerative medicine that needs to be addressed to explore full potential of the field. A web-based research on MEDLINE was done using keywords "regenerative medicine," "tissue-engineering," "bio-engineered organs," "decellularized scaffold" and "three-dimensional printing." This review screened about 170 articles to get the desired knowledge update.

Keywords: Bioartificial organs; regeneration; regenerative medicine; tissue-engineering.

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