0 a process in which cells are removed from the tissue surrounding them so that the tissue can be transplanted (= placed) into another person's body without causing a harmful reaction:
Decellularization is used in biomedical engineering to produce tissue that can be used in artificial organ and tissue regeneration.
University scientists have carried out this "decellularization" technique successfully on hearts from pigs and rats.
Doctors can clean out hearts that come from human donors or even pigs, a technique known as decellularization, then rebuild them with each patient's own cells.
Yale University's Laura Niklason has used decellularization with blood vessels and heart valves.
Decellularization is the process of removing the cellular antigens from a tissue that would initiate an immune response while leaving behind an intact extracellular matrix.
It has been postulated that tissue antigenicity can be abolished or significantly reduced by decellularization methods.
