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Futures Volume 150, June 2023, 103180 Under a Creative Commons license open access Previous Keywords Degrowth Circular economy Waste Bioregion Material consumption 1. Contested futures of the social metabolism In postulating a society that can potentially thrive by reducing waste and producing goods using discarded materials, the circular economy (CE) has gained incredible momentum worldwide. Yet this imaginary is bound to techno-managerial and pro-growth assumptions.
Current xenograft valve constructs provoke an intense immune response that may lead to valve dysfunction. Our aim was to address the role of autologous mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) recellularization of xenogenic valves on the activation of the xenoreactive immune response in an in-vivo rat model.
To view the full text, please login as a subscribed user or purchase a subscription. Click here to view the full text on ScienceDirect. FiguresBioprosthetic xenogeneic valves tend to deteriorate over time, termed structural valve deterioration (SVD), leading to valvular dysfunction. Several studies have hypothesized that SVD is a result of a chronic immune-mediated rejection process; however, a paucity of data exists demonstrating conclusively this is the case.
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