The golden chalice of this work is a scaffold populated by recipient cells, able to be transplanted and to function.
During a follow-up of up to 36 months, 134 (51%) persons died, 49 (18%) were transplanted and 7 (3%) regained renal function.
One patient was transplanted and still alive.
Dr. Reemtsma is credited with being the first to show that nonhuman organs could be transplanted into humans and function for a significant period.
Many taxpayers scarcely know what the government does, and others would not be surprised to learn that many functions could be transplanted to state and municipal governments that already perform similar functions — like maintaining parks and dispensing welfare.
Meanwhile, terminally differentiated somatic cells such as endothelial cells, myoblasts, and fibroblasts, were transplanted to exert therapeutic function in vivo (Park et al., 2007; Koffler et al., 2011).
His colleague, Pedro Baptista, said: "Our hope is that once these organs are transplanted, they will maintain and gain function as they continue to develop".
In recent years many groups of researchers have claimed to have used autologous cells for reconstruction of relatively simple organs, such as vessels, the urinary bladder, the upper airways, the oesophagus, and the urethra, which were transplanted to patients with acceptable organ function with a short and medium postoperative time period [ 3– 6].
Suppose the brain were removed from one of us, and kept intact and functioning, perhaps by being transplanted into another, de-brained body.
In that reported series four livers, 10 kidneys and one heart were transplanted, although the duration of long-term function was not reported.
