In a study in Gastroenterology, Wake Forest Baptist researchers reported the sphincters, made from muscle and nerve cells in mice, developed a blood supply and maintained function.
Similar sphincters control the release of urine and other functions in the body.
Read the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center release on development of artificial sphincters.
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