Novel Sensor-Enabled Ex Vivo Bioreactor: A New Approach towards Physiological Parameters and Porcine Artery Viability

Figure 9

Representative histology slides of ex vivo swine carotid artery tissue in bioreactor at 0 h and at 72 h. (a) Hematoxylin and eosin staining. Intact endothelium at 0 h and denuded endothelium at 72 h, causing a lower tissue viability with increase in artery diameter from 2.62 to 4.52 mm. (b) Masson’s trichrome staining; cytoplasm is indicated with red colour, blue colour indicates collagen, and dark brown spots are nuclei.

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