Abstract

Tissue engineered heart valves have been created in order to reduce the xenoreactive immune response thought to be responsible for structural valve deterioration (SVD) of bioprosthetic heart valve replacements. Our study looks to elucidate whether tissue engineering a commercially available porcine extracellular matrix will significantly attenuate the xenoreactive immune response when compared to the wild-type matrix.

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