Matthew Cheng, Jan Janzekovic, Mina Mohseni, Flavia Medeiros Savi, Jacqui McGovern, Graham Galloway, Clement Wong, Siamak Saifzadeh, Michael Wagels, Dietmar Werner Hutmacher
Scaffold guided breast tissue engineering has the potential to transform reconstructive breast surgery. Currently, there is a deficiency in clinically relevant animal models suitable for studying novel breast tissue engineering concepts. To date, only a small number of large animal studies have been conducted and characterisation of these large animal models is poorly described in the literature. Addressing this gap in the literature, this publication comprehensively describes our original porcine model based on the current published literature and the experience gained from previous animal studies conducted by our research group...
April 28, 2021: Tissue Engineering. Part C, Methods