Graft stenosis poses a critical obstacle in tissue engineered airway replacement. To investigate cellular mechanisms underlying stenosis, we utilize a murine model of tissue engineered tracheal replacement with seeded bone marrow mononuclear cells (BM-MNC). Here, we detail our protocol, including scaffold manufacturing, BM-MNC isolation, graft seeding, and implantation.
Wiet, M. G., Dharmadhikari, S., White, A., Reynolds, S. D., Johnson, J., Breuer, C. K., Chiang, T. Seeding and Implantation of a Biosynthetic Tissue-engineered Tracheal Graft in a Mouse Model. J. Vis. Exp. (146), e59173, doi:10.3791/59173 (2019).