The aim of the present study was to construct functional tissue-engineered bone with cell sheet technology and compare the efficacy of this method with that of traditional bone tissue engineering techniques. Canine bone mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) were isolated using density gradient centrifugation and then cultured. The BMSCs were induced to differentiate into osteoblasts and cultured in te...

Cell sheet technology opens new perspectives in tissue regeneration therapy by providing readily implantable, scaffold-free 3D tissue constructs. Many studies have focused on the therapeutic effects of cell sheet implantation while relatively little attention has concerned the fate of the implanted cells in vivo. The aim of the present study was to track longitudinally the cells implanted in th...

We prepared a cell sheet by using collagenase treatment to digest salmon atelocollagen fibrillar gel (SAC gel) on which human periodontal ligament (HPDL) cells had been cultured. The SAC gel was found to be digested completely within 2 h at a concentration of 50 U of collagenase per mg of collagen. The SAC gel on which HPDL cells were cultured for 10 d was treated with collagenase, resulting in...

Cell sheet engineering allows investigators/clinicians to prepare cell-dense three-dimensional (3-D) tissues, and various clinical trials with these fabricated tissues have already been performed for regenerating damaged tissues. Cell sheets are easily manipulated and 3-D tissues can be rapidly fabricated by layering the cell sheets. This study used optical coherence tomography (OCT) to noninva...

BACKGROUND Endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) possess robust therapeutic angiogenic potential, yet may be limited in the capacity to develop into fully mature vasculature. This problem might be exacerbated by the absence of a neovascular foundation, namely pericytes, with simple EPC injection. We hypothesized that coculturing EPCs with smooth muscle cells (SMCs), components of the surrounding ...

Angiogenic cell therapy represents a novel strategy for ischemic diseases, but some patients show poor responses. We investigated the therapeutic potential of an induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell sheet created by a novel magnetite tissue engineering technology (Mag-TE) for reparative angiogenesis. Mouse iPS cell-derived Flk-1(+) cells were incubated with magnetic nanoparticle-containing lipos...