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Skin composite construction using adipose tissue-derived stem cells for wound healing

Peng Xi-liang, Zhang Yu-hong, Ni Wen-qiong   

  1. Zhengzhou Central Hospital Affiliated to Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450007, Henan Province, China
  • Received:2015-12-01 Online:2016-01-01 Published:2016-01-01
  • About author:Peng Xi-liang, Associate chief physician, Zhengzhou Central Hospital Affiliated to Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450007, Henan Province, China
  • Supported by:

    the Scientific Research Project of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Henan Province, No. 2014ZY02082

Abstract:

BACKGROUND: There is no clear understanding on the effects of subcutaneous fat and stem cells on wound healing.
OBJECTIVE: To explore the therapeutic effects of skin composite prepared with adipose tissue-derived stem cells on skin defects.
METHODS: Epidermal cells, fibroblasts, adipose tissue-derived stem cells as seed cells and bovine collagen gel as a scaffold were used to build a complex with a variety of cells. A 6-mm diameter circular skin defect was made on the both sides of the rat back. The right side as experimental side was implanted with an 8-mm diameter multilayer skin composite, and the left side (control side) was only treated with a simple dressing.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: For the constructed multi-layer skin composite, the epidermal layer was continuously merged into the multi-layer, the fibroblasts evenly distributed in the corium layer, and lipid droplets existed in the fat layer in which the cells distributed uniformly. Cell aggregation was obviously observed at the junction of different layers. In the experimental side, the rate of wound healing, granulation tissue thickness, the thickness of dermis and the capillary density were significantly higher than those in the control side. Taken together, we can construct multilayer skin composites with a variety of cells as seed cells, such as epidermal cells, fibroblasts and adipose tissue-derived stem cells, and bovine collagen gel as a scaffold, which promote wound healing and increase the thickness of dermis.