Engineered hiPSC-derived vascular graft brings hope for thrombosis-free vascular therapy.

Tamhankar, Soniya; Shusta, Eric V; Palecek, Sean P · Cell Stem Cell · 2025

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Tissue-engineered vascular conduits (TEVCs) are a promising blood vessel replacement. In a recent publication in Cell Stem Cell,<sup>1</sup> Park et al. developed TEVCs comprised of decellularized human umbilical arteries lined with shear-trained, human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC)-derived endothelial cells (ECs) that resisted thrombosis and exhibited patency upon grafting into the rat inferior vena cava (IVC).

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