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[Sex reassignment surgery in transsexuals].
[BACKGROUND] Rikshospitalet (The National Hospital) treats all transsexual patients in Norway. 50-70 patients are referred annually for assessment and about 20 of these are diagnosed as transsexual. Approximately 15 confirmed transsexuals, …
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Estradiol increases VEGF in human breast studied by whole-tissue culture.
Sex steroid exposure constitutes a risk factor for breast cancer, but little is known about the effects of sex steroids on the normal breast, largely because of the lack of convenient models. We have developed a method of culturing normal b…
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Tissue engineering--body parts from the Petri dish.
The development of methods to regenerate human tissues and organs by tissue engineering (TE), will have a dramatic influence on many medical specialities in the future. The essence of plastic surgery is to reconstruct disrupted and damaged …
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Mammary epithelial cell and adipocyte co-culture in a 3-D matrix: the first step towards tissue-engineered human breast tissue.
Reconstruction of the female breast after cancer surgery is a demanding task where the methods used today suffer from several disadvantages. In the present study we have investigated the possibility to use tissue engineering methods to rege…
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[Recreation of tissue--the plastic surgeon's spring-board in to the 21st century].
During recent years, a new field has appeared, in which the principles of life sciences and engineering are applied to the development of methods of regenerating human tissue and organs. Since the emergence of this interdisciplinary field, …
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Characterization of a new in vitro burn wound model.
Previous studies of the healing process in burn wounds have largely been dependent on different animal models. These models are not only ethically questionable but are also combined with several systemic variables that are difficult to cont…