Japan successfully regenerates heart valves in dogs

The team of scientists from the Center for Disease Treatment at the Recirculation Agency and the University of Japan have devised a method to create heart valves inside the body from the dog's own cells.

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The team put a 2cm diameter silicon tube into the cell organization under the back of two dogs to form a heart valve.

This silicon tube consists of two cylindrical sections and the joint is designed to form a heart valve.

The cells of the dog's subcutaneous skin will grow around the silicon tube and after a month will form an organ with a heart valve structure in the blood vessel tube.

The scientists took this heart valve into the body of the two dogs themselves and confirmed that these two heart valves worked normally.

The success of Japanese scientists shows that the heart valve is reconstructed in the dog body and transplanted to the dog itself without a rejection reaction. Japanese scientists will continue clinical trials on dogs and soon advance to human applications.