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What Is Sphincter of Oddi Dysfunction?

The sphincter of Oddi is a muscular valve that plays a vital role in digestion. It controls the flow of bile and pancreatic juice. It opens and closes to let the juices flow from the liver and ...
The Business Journals

Richmond's Cellf Bio records first human implantation of its product

A Richmond biotech company recently took a step forward with the first human implantation of its product. Cellf Bio makes a bioengineered sphincter muscle. The treatment helps patients with fecal ...
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University of Nevada School of Medicine physiology professor earns $1.2 million grant over four years to study motility of internal anal sphincter muscle

RENO, Nev. -- Kathleen Keef, Ph.D., professor of physiology and cell biology at the University of Nevada School of Medicine, has been awarded a four-year, $1.2 million grant from the National ...
Business Wire

FDA Grants RMAT designation for Cook MyoSite’s Investigational Autologous Muscle Derived Cells for Urinary Sphincter Repair

PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cook MyoSite, a biotechnology firm based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted the Regenerative ...