Transplantation of Engineered Cardiac Muscle Flaps in Syngeneic Rats

Richard Tee; Wayne A Morrison; Gregory J Dusting; Guei-Sheung Liu; Yu Suk Choi; Sarah Tzu-Feng Hsiao; Rodney J Dilley

Journal article

Transplantation of Engineered Cardiac Muscle Flaps in Syngeneic Rats

Richard Tee, Wayne A Morrison, Gregory J Dusting, Guei-Sheung Liu, Yu Suk Choi, Sarah Tzu-Feng Hsiao, Rodney J Dilley

Tissue Engineering. Part A. Tissue Engineering | MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC | Published : 2012

DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2012.0151

University of Melbourne Researchers

Gregory Dusting Author Surgery - St Vincent's Hospital

Rodney Dilley Author Surgery - St Vincent's Hospital

Wayne Morrison Author Surgery - St Vincent's Hospital

Rick Liu Author Ophthalmology Eye and Ear Hospital

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Cardiac muscle tissue engineering

Heart failure is very costly in the Australian medical system with few effective treatments. We recently developed a new method for generati..

Grants

Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council

Funding Acknowledgements

We thank Sue Mackay, Liliana Pepe, Anna Deftereos, Amanda Rixon, Priya Sivakumaran, Jason Palmer, and Xiao Lian Han for their technical assistance. This project was supported by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS), the Foundation of Surgery Reg Worchester Research Fellowship, the National Heart Foundation of Australia Postgraduate Scholarship (RT), The Cass Foundation and the National Health and Medical Research Council (for Project Grant, 509271 and Principal Research Fellowship GJD), The JO and JR Wicking Trust, and the Victorian State Government Operational Infrastructure Support scheme.