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Blood Vessels from Bone Marrow a
Author(s) -
CAMPBELL JULIE H.,
EFENDY JOHNNY L.,
HAN CHIH LU,
CAMPBELL GORDON R.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06317.x
Subject(s) - adventitia , mesothelial cell , anatomy , myofibroblast , vasa vasorum , mesothelium , silastic , chemistry , capsule , bone marrow , artery , blood vessel , medullary cavity , connective tissue , pathology , fibrosis , biology , medicine , surgery , botany , endocrinology
A bstract : Lengths of silastic tubing were inserted into the peritoneal cavity of rats or rabbits. By two weeks the free‐floating implants had become covered by a capsule consisting of several layers of “macrophage”‐derived myofibroblasts and collagen matrix overlaid by a single layer of mesothelial cells. The tubing was removed from the harvested implant and the tissue everted. This now resembled an artery with an inner lining of mesothelial cells (the “intima”), a “media” of myofibroblasts, and an outer collagenous “adventitia.” The tube of living tissue was grafted by end‐to‐end anastomoses into the transected carotid artery or abdominal aorta of the same animal in which the tissue had been grown, where it remained patent for four months and developed structures resembling elastic lamellae. The myofibroblasts developed a high volume fraction of myofilaments and became responsive to contractile and relaxing agents similar to smooth muscle cells of the adjacent artery wall.