This invention discloses a culture medium and method for expanding adult
human lung pluripotent stem cells. It relates to the field of primary
lung stem cell culture technology, including specific components, culture methods based on the culture medium, and applications. The culture medium of this invention can continuously and stably culture adult
human lung stem cells for more than 30 generations. This invention can stably expand adult
human lung pluripotent stem cells at the 2D level, and the stem cells maintain a high
proliferation rate and multi-
cell differentiation potential of
lung epithelial cells after continuous passage. Importantly, after
in vivo transplantation of the expanded adult pluripotent stem cells, the cells can achieve efficient
cell integration and functional alveolar structure reconstruction in fibrotic
lung tissue, and the
cell transplantation safety is high. This is of great significance for advancing
stem cell therapy for respiratory diseases and research on the pathogenic mechanisms of respiratory diseases, and also provides excellent seed cells for subsequent construction of functional human lung organoids and screening of drugs for respiratory diseases represented by
pulmonary fibrosis.