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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-10-24
pubmed:abstractText
Bioartificial skin sheet grafts have been utilized to treat large burns and chronic ulcers. However, the trypsinization step to harvest cultured skin grafts from culture dishes damages the cells by breaking the anchoring proteins and lowers their uptake ratio after transplantation. In addition, epidermal sheet grafts require a long fabrication period. To overcome these limitations, we utilized biodegradable poly(lactide-co-glycolide) (PLGA) microspheres as both cell culture matrix and transplantation vehicle of skin cells for skin regeneration in this study. This method could avoid the trypsinization step and have a relatively short preparation period. Human keratinocytes and dermal fibroblasts cultured on PLGA microspheres in spinner flasks proliferated by 3.0-fold and 9.4-fold, respectively, after 10 days. When both types of cells cultured on PLGA microspheres were reinoculated onto culture dishes, the cells migrated from the PLGA microspheres to the culture dish surface, grew, and formed a confluent cell layer within 5 days, showing the growth and migration abilities of the cells cultured on PLGA microspheres. Full-thickness skin wounds created on the back of athymic mice were either treated with transplantation of keratinocytes and dermal fibroblasts cultured on microspheres (cell-transplanted group), treated with PLGA microspheres alone (microsphere-implanted group), or covered with dressing materials without treatment (untreated group). Three weeks after the treatments, differentiated epithelium that stained positively for cytokeratin, a marker of epidermis, was observed in the cell-transplanted group, while the microsphere-implanted group and untreated group showed incomplete reepithelialization. Dermal regeneration with positive staining for vimentin, a marker of dermal fibroblast, was observed in the cell-transplanted group. Regenerated dermis with positive staining for vimentin was partly observed in the microsphere-implanted group and untreated group. These results suggest that transplantation of keratinocytes and dermal fibroblasts cultured on PLGA microspheres could be potentially useful as an alternative to bioartificial skin grafts for the treatment of skin wounds.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
1552-4973
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright (c) 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
75
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
369-77
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:16025446-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:16025446-Cell Culture Techniques, pubmed-meshheading:16025446-Cell Proliferation, pubmed-meshheading:16025446-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:16025446-Dermis, pubmed-meshheading:16025446-Epithelium, pubmed-meshheading:16025446-Female, pubmed-meshheading:16025446-Fibroblasts, pubmed-meshheading:16025446-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:16025446-Keratinocytes, pubmed-meshheading:16025446-Lactic Acid, pubmed-meshheading:16025446-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:16025446-Mice, Inbred BALB C, pubmed-meshheading:16025446-Mice, Nude, pubmed-meshheading:16025446-Microspheres, pubmed-meshheading:16025446-Polyglycolic Acid, pubmed-meshheading:16025446-Regeneration, pubmed-meshheading:16025446-Skin Physiological Phenomena, pubmed-meshheading:16025446-Skin Transplantation, pubmed-meshheading:16025446-Tissue Engineering
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
Skin regeneration using keratinocytes and dermal fibroblasts cultured on biodegradable microspherical polymer scaffolds.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Chemical Engineering, Hanyang University, 17 Haengdang-dong, Seongdong-gu, Seoul 133-791, Korea.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't