Decellularization and Sterilization of Porcine Urinary Bladder Matrix for Tissue Engineering in the Lower Urinary Tract

We describe a decellularized sterilized porcine UBM with acceptable mechanical properties that shows promise as a scaffold for producing an in vitro tissue-engineered bladder patch material for lower urinary tract reconstruction. Future work now needs to focus on the conditions for achieving secure epithelial attachment.