TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION INVOLVING, AND TISSUES MODIFIED BY DECELLULARIZATION AND RECELLULARIZATION OF DONOR TISSUES FOR MINIMIZED OR OBVIATED REJECTION REACTIONS
A kidney was removed from a donor animal (a pig) and was later transplanted into a recipient animal (another, non-familial pig). The procedure produced a functioning kidney (actively producing urine) in the recipient, without rejection or the formation of scar tissue after two weeks post-transplantation. The procedure involves decellularization of the donor organ, followed by recellularizing the donor organ with cells grown from the recipients stem cells through use of cytokines, or "growth factors", that are extracted from the recipients blood plasma.
