An In Vitro Model of a Parallel-Plate Perfusion System to Study Bacterial Adherence to Graft TissuesBartosz Ditkowski 1, Tiago R Veloso 1, Martyna Bezulska-Ditkowska 1,2, Andreas Lubig 3, Stefan Jockenhoevel 3, Petra Mela 3, Ramadan Jashari 4, Marc Gewillig 1, Bart Meyns 5, Marc F Hoylaerts 2, Ruth Heying 1
1Cardiovascular Developmental Biology, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, KU Leuven, 2Centre for Molecular and Vascular Biology, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, KU Leuven, 3Department of Biohybrid & Medical Textiles, AME - Helmholtz Institute for Biomedical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, 4European Homograft Bank, Saint Jean Clinique, 5Division of Clinical Cardiac Surgery, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, KU Leuven
We describe an in-house designed in vitro flow chamber model, which allows the investigation of bacterial adherence to graft tissues.
