Human skin equivalent as an alternative to animal testing (2008)
Mertsching, H., Weimer, M., Kersen, S., Brunner, H.
3-D-Hautäquivalente sind physiologisch vergleichbar mit natürlicher Haut und deshalb eine Alternative zum Tierversuch. Das hoch differenzierte in-vitro Modell menschlicher Haut wird zur Prüfung...
Zellkulturtechniken, Zellmodelle und Tissue Engineering. Teil 2 (2008)
Die moderne Zell- und Molekularbiologie ist ohne den Einsatz von Zell- und Gewebekulturen nicht denkbar. Die "In-vitro-Zellbiologie" bildet heute die Grundlage für die Aufklärung...
In vitro three-dimensional tubular trachea model (2007)
Brenner, M., Hansmann, J., Weimer, M., Brunner, H., Mertsching, H.
Nanomaterials: Cytotoxic or biocompatible? (2007)
Peter, T., Pusch, K., Vohrer, U., Weimer, M., Mertsching, H.
Studies of cell adhesion and cell differentiation by micro- and nanostructured surfaces (2007)
Schweizer, P., Weimer, M., Borchers, K., Sciarratta, V., Vohrer, U., Oehr, C., ...
Health risk versus benefit: Handling with nanomaterials: How safe - is safe enough? (2007)
Over the last few years, the risk from exposure to ultrafine or nanoparticles (< 100 nm) for humans and the environment has constantly risen in line with the increasing market readiness of...
The potential of bioartificial tissues in oncology research and treatment (2007)
Walles, T., Weimer, M., Linke, K., Michaelis, J., Mertsching, H.
This review article addresses the relevance and potential of bioartificial tissues in oncologic research and therapy and reconstructive oncologic surgery. In order to translate the findings from...
Engineered liver-like tissue on a capillarized matrix for applied research (2007)
Linke, K., Schanz, J., Hansmann, J., Walles, T., Brunner, H., Mertsching, H.
Liver tissue that is functional and viable for several weeks in vitro represents an auspicious test system for basic and applied research. In this study, a coculture system for hepatocytes (HCs) and...
Neovaskularisation und Tissue Engineering vom komplexen Geweben (2007)
Organ or tissue reconstruction and transplantation is a common therapy for failure or loss of organs and tissues. The goal of Tissue Engineering is the development of biological compatible...
Klinische Prüfpräparate und Tissue Engineering Produkte sind gemäß AMG Arzneimittel. Deshalb muss für ihre Produktion eine Herstellungserlaubnis (Paragraph 13 AMG) vorliegen und sie müssen...
Ex vivo generation of vascularized organ-like structures based on a biological matrix (2006)
Mertsching, H., Schanz, J., Hausmann, J., Linke, K., Brunner, H.
Biancosino, C., Zardo, P., Walles, T., Wildfang, I., Macchiarini, P., Mertsching, H.
Introduction Anecdotal clinical reports denote first tissue engineering applications entering medical practice. Currently it is still unknown, if these new types of implants will tolerate the...
Isoliertes naturidentisches Kollagen (2006)
Xiong, X., Mertsching, H., Rupp, S., Brunner, H.
DE 102006026591 A1 UPAB: 20080102 NOVELTY - Isolating collagen from tissue comprises isolating collagen-containing fibers from the tissue, extracting collagen from the fibers by incubation with a...
Vaskularisierte Trägersysteme für in vitro Testsysteme (2006)
Mertsching, H., Hansmann, J., Schanz, J., Linke, K., Brenner, M., Michaelis, J., ...
Tissue Engineering gilt als vielversprechendes Verfahren zur Herstellung einfach organisierter Gewebe außerhalb des Körpers, die als in-vitro-Testsysteme im Bereich der Medikamentenentwicklung und...
Vorrichtung und Verfahren zur Analyse biologischer Proben (2006)
Mertsching, H., Sulz, G., Thielecke, H., Bolwien, C., Koch, S.
DE 102006053540 B3 UPAB: 20080421 NOVELTY - Optospectroscopic analysis of a biological sample in fluids, comprises: fixing the biological sample in a sample holding unit; categorizing the particles...
Verfahren zur Anreicherung von Melanozyten mittels modifizierter Oberflaechen (2006)
Mertsching, H., Schweizer, P., Brunner, H., Oehr, C., Sciarratta, V.
DE 102006057742 A1 UPAB: 20080815 NOVELTY - The method of obtaining melanocytes from an epidermal cell suspension and/or a cell suspension from a hair root, comprises cultivating the cell suspension...
Tissue remodeling in a bioartificial fibromuscular patch following transplantation in a human (2005)
Walles, T., Biancosino, C., Zardo, P., Macciarini, P., Gottlieb, J., Mertsching, H.
Engineering of a vascularized scaffold for artificial tissue and organ generation (2005)
Mertsching, H., Walles, T., Hofmann, M., Schanz, J., Knapp, W.H.
Experimental generation of a tissue-engineered functional and vascularized trachea (2004)
Walles, T., Giere, B., Hofmann, M., Schanz, J., Hofmann, F., Mertsching, H., ...
Schultheiss, D., Gabouev, A.I., Kaufmann, P.M., Schlote, N., Mertsching, H., Haverich, A., ...
A new technique is presented to harvest an acellular matrix from a porcine small bowel segment preserving the mesenteric arterial and venous pedicles. Reseeding of this biological vascularized matrix...