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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2008
Michael J. Yost, Lexington, SC (US);
C. Michael Gore, West Columbia, SC (US);
Louis Terracio, New York, NY (US);
Richard L. Goodwin, Columbia, SC (US);
Edie C. Goldsmith, Lexington, SC (US);
Michael J. Yost, Lexington, SC (US);
C. Michael Gore, West Columbia, SC (US);
Louis Terracio, New York, NY (US);
Richard L. Goodwin, Columbia, SC (US);
Edie C. Goldsmith, Lexington, SC (US);
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for producing a tubular tissue scaffold having aligned biopolymer fibrils including a biopolymer gel dispersion feed pump that is operably connected to a tube-forming device having an exit port, where the tube-forming device is capable of producing a tube from the gel dispersion while providing an angular shear force across the wall of the tube, and a liquid bath located to receive the tubular tissue scaffold from the tube-forming device.