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Because these vessels were made with patient-derived skin cells, they are less likely to be rejected by the recipient, helping patients potentially avoid the need for life-long, anti-rejection drugs.
Daniel Garry, MD, PhD, and
Mary Garry, PhD, both professors in the Department of Medicine at the U of M Medical School, co-led the research team and published their findings in
Nature Biotechnology last week.
"There's so many chronic and terminal diseases, and many people are not able to participate in organ transplantation," said Daniel, who is also a heart failure and transplant cardiologist. "About 98 percent of people are not going to be eligible for a heart transplant, so there's been a huge effort in trying to come up with strategies to increase the donor pool. Our approach looked at a pig."
Because of similarities between human and pig physiology, scientists have historically studied pigs to discover treatments for health issues, including diabetes. Before researchers engineered human insulin, doctors treated patients with pig insulin.
"Our discovery has made a platform for making human blood vessels in a pig," said Daniel. "This could allow us to make organs with human blood vessels that would be less apt to be rejected and could be used in patients in need of a transplant. That's what typically causes rejection — the lining of the blood vessels in the organs."
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