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ReviewFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology2025

Decellularization techniques: unveiling the blueprint for tracheal tissue engineering.

Keisha T Gomes, Palla Ranga Prasad, Jagnoor Singh Sandhu, Ashwini Kumar, Naveena A N Kumar, N B Shridhar, Bharti Bisht, Manash K Paul

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Review in Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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10 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Tracheal Tissue Engineering: Advances and Challenges.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  6. [Application and challenges of tissue engineered scaffolds in treatment of long-segment laryngotracheal stenosis].Zhongguo xiu fu chong jian wai ke za zhi = Zhongguo xiufu chongjian waike zazhi = Chinese journal of reparative and reconstructive surgery · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Keisha T Gomes *Department of Radiation Biology and Toxicology, Manipal School of Life Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India.
Palla Ranga Prasad *Department of Radiation Biology and Toxicology, Manipal School of Life Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India.
Jagnoor Singh SandhuCentral Animal Research Facility, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India.
Ashwini KumarDepartment of Forensic Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India.
Naveena A N KumarDepartment of Surgical Oncology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India.
N B ShridharDepartment of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Obscure Disease Research Center, Veterinary College Campus, Shivamogga, Karnataka, India.
Bharti BishtDepartment of Microbiology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India.
Manash K PaulDepartment of Radiation Biology and Toxicology, Manipal School of Life Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Certain congenital or acquired diseases and defects such as tracheo-oesophageal fistula, tracheomalacia, tracheal stenosis, airway ischemia, infections, and tumours can cause damage to the trachea. Treatments available do not offer any permanent solutions. Moreover, long-segment defects in the trachea have no available surgical treatments. Tissue engineering has gained popularity in current regenerative medicine as a promising approach to bridge this gap. Among the various tissue engineering techniques, decellularization is a widely used approach that removes the cellular and nuclear contents from the tissue while preserving the native extracellular matrix components. The decellularized scaffolds exhibit significantly lower immunogenicity and retain the essential biomechanical and proangiogenic properties of native tissue, creating a foundation for trachea regeneration. The present review provides an overview of trachea decellularization advancements, exploring how recellularization approaches can be optimized by using various stem cells and tissue-specific cells to restore the scaffold's structure and function. We examine critical factors such as mechanical properties, revascularization, and immunogenicity involved in the transplantation of tissue-engineered grafts.

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decellularizationrecellularizationscaffoldstracheatransplantation

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PMID40092377
PMCPMC11906413

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