Research Article

A New Approach of In Vivo Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering Using the Epigastric Artery as Central Core Vessel of a 3-Dimensional Construct

Figure 3

The implanted in vivo bioreactor chamber (outer width 10 mm, length 20 mm, height 6 mm) in a 4-weeks-old male Wistar rat with the epigastric artery (*) as central-core vessel; the transplanted and luciferase-transfected myoblasts are embedded in a fibrinogen matrix.
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