ARTIFICIAL BLOOD VESSEL AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME

摘要

A main object of the present invention is to provide an artificial tissue capable of carrying necessary nutrients for maintaining activities of cells and tissues. To achieve the object, the invention provides a method of manufacturing an artificial blood vessel, characterized in that the method comprises: a process for extracting a blood vessel form image of extracting a plurality of forms of blood vessels from an image of a living tissue and making it into a blood vessel form image; a process for adjusting a blood vessel forming pattern of adjusting each of the bloodvessel forms of the bloodvessel form image and forming a blood vessel formation pattern; a process for forming a blood vessel cell culturing pattern of forming, in a cell culturing layer, a blood vessel cell culturing pattern comprising: a cell adhesion portion having adhesive properties with a blood vessel cell and formed to the blood vessel formation pattern; and a cell adhesion-inhibiting portion having cell adhesion-inhibiting properties for inhibiting adhesion with a blood vessel cell and formed in an area other than the cell adhesion portion; and a process for culturing a blood vessel cell of adhering a blood vessel cell to the cell adhesion portion, culturing and made into a tissue.