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American Scientists Try to Develop Artificial Blood Vessel with the Skin Cell Scientists have grown blood vessels for kidney
American Scientists Try to Develop Artificial Blood Vessel with the Skin Cell Scientists have grown blood vessels for kidney
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2013-07-08
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American Scientists Try to Develop Artificial Blood Vessel with the Skin Cell
Scientists have grown blood vessels for kidney patients from their own cells, making it easier and safer for them to use dialysis machines, a new study says.
Todd McAllister of Cytograft Tissue Engineering in California and colleagues implanted lab-grown blood vessels into 10 patients with advanced kidney disease in Argentina and Poland from 2004 to 2007.
Early results for two of these patients were announced in 2005. In 2007, the scientists published preliminary findings for another 4 patients in the New England Journal of Medicine. In the most recent study, published in the medical journal Lancet, scientists reported on the new blood vessels in those same patients and 4 others.
Dialysis patients need a vessel to connect them to dialysis machines. This can be made from their own vessels ~ But because dialysis is done so regularly, kidney patients often run out of healthy vessels and need an artificial one. Those are prone to infection.
In the study, doctors took a small piece of skin from patients. Ceils from those samples were grown in a lab, to help them produce proteins. From those, scientists made sheets of tissue that were rolled into blood vessels 6 to 8 inches long. The vessels were finished after 6 to 9 months. All of the vessels were implanted into patients’ upper arms, to connect them to dialysis machines.
The vessels failed in three of the patients, which experts said was not surprising in patients so seriously ill. One other patient withdrew from the study and another died of unrelated causes. In the five remaining patients, the vessels worked for at least 6 to 20 months after they were implanted. Afterwards, those patients needed fewer interventions, including surgeries, to maintain the vessels than regular dialysis patients.
The study was paid for by Cytograft Tissue Engineering. McAllister said he and colleagues plan to test similar devices in patients with heart and leg problems.
"It’s difficult to predict what will happen next, but they are on the right track." Vladimir Mironov of the Medical University of South Carolina said. But he worried the vessels, which cost between $ 15,000 and $ 20,000 might be too expensive to be used widely. Dr. Bryan Becker, president of the National Kidney Foundation in the US, said about haft of kidney patients could benefit from these vessels if further tests confirm they work.
What does the word "intervention" (Line 9, Para. 6) mean?
选项
A、Treatment after the operation.
B、Device attached to the vessels.
C、Doctor’s instruction of medicine.
D、24-hour careful observation.
答案
A
解析
语义理解题。由题干中的intervention定位到第六段第四句可知,手术后,接受实验的病人不需要太多的人为干预,intervention一词在这里指的是药物、手术等用来维持植入的血管正常工作的手段,最为相近的意思为[A]。“手术后的处理”。[B]“附加物”和[D]“24小时监控”与文章意思不符;[C]“开具药方”与本句后面的“包括手术手段”在逻辑上冲突,故排除。
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