Xally Valencia

@CDTLifETIME PhD Student at @UofGlasgow
Developing plant-based scaffolds for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine 🌱

[Xally Valencia @XallyValenciaG]

The engineered tissue then can be used as a model for research and be applied to drug screening and testing providing a human- derived tissue, hence being more reliable for data collection than the current animal tissues being used.
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[Xally Valencia @XallyValenciaG]

VegFold- In the finding of a suitable material for substituting the Extracellular Matrix (ECM) in #TissueEngineering (TE) approaches, acellular plant tissues have been proposed as biomaterial for scaffolds due to their resemblance to mammalian ECM.

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[Xally Valencia @XallyValenciaG]

Plant- derived scaffolds are produced after the removal of plant cells from the cellulose matrix of plant tissues (decellularisation). Then, human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) can be seeded there and, by the addition of growth factors, differentiate into a tissue. #lifETIMETC24

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"Organs may not grow on trees, but they can on leaves"

Read our latest blog by Xally Montserrat Valencia Guerrero about her PhD project.

Read the full blog here: https://t.co/68RyYO3QlW

#Tissueengineering #Plantbasedscaffolds