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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jun 12.
Published in final edited form as: Compr Physiol. 2019 Jun 12;9(3):1155–1212. doi: 10.1002/cphy.c180037

Figure 27.

Figure 27.

Perfusion-decellularization of whole hearts preserves the vascular architecture. (A) Corrosion casts of native and decellularized hearts. Scale bars refer to 1 mm (top) and 250 μm (bottom). (B) Transplanted decellularized heart before and after re-establishment of blood flow. The recipient animal was heparinized to minimize thrombosis. Reproduced with permission from (424).