Rafael A D Prinz, Leonardo Rosa da Rocha, Thiago Penna Eirado, Jonathan da Silva Pinto, João Antônio Matheus Guimarães, Fabricio Fogagnolo, Rhayra Braga Dias
Bone allografts are clinically used in a variety of surgical procedures, and tissue banks are responsible for harvesting, processing, quality testing, storing, and delivering these materials for transplantation. In tissue banks, the bone is processed for the removal of all organic content, remaining only the tissue structure (scaffold). However, several studies have shown that even after using different processing methods, viable cells, functional proteins, and DNA may still persist in the tissue, which constitute the main causes of graft rejection...
February 17, 2024: Cell and Tissue Banking