PART 1 Oral cavity, pharynx and esophagus GI Motility online (2006) doi:10.1038/gimo6 Published 16 May 2006 Esophagus - anatomy and development Braden Kuo, M.D. and Daniela Urma, M.D. About the ...

“ Disorders of the esophagus and trachea are prevalent enough in people that organoid models of human esophagus could be greatly beneficial.” Jim Wells, Ph.D. Medical Innovation Stem Cell Research ...

For the next several months, doctors grew a tissue-engineered trachea inside the 14-year-old’s stomach. Everything was going as planned until surgeons went in to retrieve the trachea.

Scientists at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital have figured out how to use stem cells to grow human esophagus tissue in a lab, which could help in the study of birth defects and diseases that ...

Next, they compared which genes were turned on in the esophagus and trachea of developing mice, comparing animals that had a functional NKX2.1 gene with those that did not.

After breathing through an implanted tube in her throat for six years, a woman underwent the first successful human trachea transplant, in an 18-hour procedure performed by surgeons at Mount Sinai.

"Disorders of the esophagus and trachea are prevalent enough in people that organoid models of human esophagus could be greatly beneficial," Wells says. "In addition to being a new model to study ...

Stem cell-based bioartificial tissues and organs Date: February 18, 2013 Source: Karolinska Institutet Summary: Surgeons have successfully transplanting bioengineered stem cell-based trachea ...

Next, they compared which genes were turned on in the esophagus and trachea of developing mice, comparing animals that had a functional NKX2.1 gene with those that did not.

The adult human esophagus is an 18- to 25-cm long muscular tube that has cervical, thoracic, and abdominal parts. The esophagus wall is composed of striated muscle in the upper part, smooth muscle ...