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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-6-1
pubmed:abstractText
Skin and cornea both feature an epithelium firmly anchored to its underlying connective compartment: dermis for skin and stroma for cornea. A breakthrough in tissue engineering occurred in 1975 when skin stem cells were successfully amplified in culture by Rheinwald and Green. Since 1981, they are used in the clinical arena as cultured epidermal autografts for the treatment of patients with extensive burns. A similar technique has been later adapted to the amplification of limbal-epithelial cells. The basal layer of the limbal epithelium is located in a transitional zone between the cornea and the conjunctiva and contains the stem cell population of the corneal epithelium called limbal-stem cells (LSC). These cells maintain the proper renewal of the corneal epithelium by generating transit-amplifying cells that migrate from the basal layer of the limbus towards the basal layer of the cornea. Tissue-engineering protocols enable the reconstruction of three-dimensional (3D) complex tissues comprising both an epithelium and its underlying connective tissue. Our in vitro reconstruction model is based on the combined use of cells and of a natural collagen-based biodegradable polymer to produce the connective-tissue compartment. This porous substrate acts as a scaffold for fibroblasts, thereby, producing a living dermal/stromal equivalent, which once epithelialized results into a reconstructed skin/hemicornea. This paper presents the reconstruction of surface epithelia for the treatment of pathological conditions of skin and cornea and the development of 3D tissue-engineered substitutes based on a collagen-GAG-chitosan matrix for the regeneration of skin and cornea.
pubmed:language
fre
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
1768-3114
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
57
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
290-8
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:18602223-Burns, pubmed-meshheading:18602223-Cell Culture Techniques, pubmed-meshheading:18602223-Cell-Matrix Junctions, pubmed-meshheading:18602223-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:18602223-Chitosan, pubmed-meshheading:18602223-Collagen, pubmed-meshheading:18602223-Corneal Diseases, pubmed-meshheading:18602223-Corneal Transplantation, pubmed-meshheading:18602223-Endothelial Cells, pubmed-meshheading:18602223-Epithelial Cells, pubmed-meshheading:18602223-Extracellular Matrix, pubmed-meshheading:18602223-Fibroblasts, pubmed-meshheading:18602223-Glycosaminoglycans, pubmed-meshheading:18602223-Porosity, pubmed-meshheading:18602223-Skin Diseases, pubmed-meshheading:18602223-Skin Transplantation, pubmed-meshheading:18602223-Tissue Engineering, pubmed-meshheading:18602223-Tissue Scaffolds, pubmed-meshheading:18602223-Transfection, pubmed-meshheading:18602223-Transplantation, Autologous, pubmed-meshheading:18602223-Transplantation, Homologous
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
[Porous matrix and primary-cell culture: a shared concept for skin and cornea tissue engineering].
pubmed:affiliation
Banque de tissus et cellules, hôpital Edouard-Herriot, HCL, pavillon I, 5, place d'Arsonval, 69437 Lyon cedex 03, France. Celine.auxenfans@chu-lyon.fr
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract, Review