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Figure 2 An overview of gastrointestinal tract tissue engineering and regenerative medicine approaches
Figure 2 | An overview of gastrointestinal tract tissue engineering and regenerative medicine approaches. The gastrointestinal tract is susceptible to different diseases that tissue engineering and regenerative medicine might be able to repair and treat. These can be divided into acellular approaches such as decellularized matrices, synthetic and natural scaffolds as replacements to reconstruct the gut, or cell-based approaches such as tissue-specific cells (smooth muscle cells, neural progenitor cells and epithelial cells), gut-derived organoid units and stem cells (organ buds).
Bitar, K. N. & Zakhem, E. (2016) Bioengineering the gut: future prospects of regenerative medicine
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