Cultured Cell Sheet, Production Method and Tissue Repair Method Using Thereof

Abstract

It is intended to provide a cultured cell sheet with excellent tissue adherence and flexibility. The above object can be achieved by culturing cells on a support for cell culture in which a surface of a substrate is coated with a temperature-responsive polymer whose lower or upper critical solution temperature against water is in the range of 0 and 80° C. along with a surfactant protein or a crosslinking inhibitor and producing a cultured cell sheet by detaching it by setting the temperature of the culture to the upper critical solution temperature or higher or to the lower critical solution temperature or lower.

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TECHNICAL FIELD[0001]The present invention relates to a cultured cell sheet, a production method, and an applied tissue repair method thereof, in medical and biological fields, etc.BACKGROUND ART[0002]Japan is becoming an aging society with the highest average life expectancy in the world. People are beginning to place more emphasis on living better, i.e., “the quality of life (QOL)”, rather than merely prolonging life. Under such circumstances, medical techniques are rapidly progressing, and techniques for reconstruction of organs damaged by trauma or disease are also advancing remarkably. Therefore, in recent years, a lot of attention has been focused on regenerative medical techniques in which organ tissue is reconstructed in the cell culture system employing cultured cells, and then transplanted to the target site.[0003]To carry out such treatments, it is necessary to use tissue adhesive agents for tissue adhesion. The tissue adhesive agents currently used in the clinical field ...

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Benefits of technology

[0008]Specifically, the present invention provides a highly adhesive cultured cell sheet with a superior adhesiveness to the surface of a leaking site on an organ and with an excellent flexibility.

[0010]Moreover, the present invention provides a cultured cell sheet for application as tissue repair material for suppressing air leakage, blood leakage or bodily fluid leakage from the surface of an organ.

[0012]The highly adhesive cultured cell sheet obtained by the present invention has extremely high adhesiveness to a leaking site of the surface of an organ and an excellent flexibility. Therefore, the use of the cell sheet of the present invention enables to suppress air leakage, blood leakage or bodily fluid leakage from the surface of an organ. Consequently, the present invention is extremely useful in biological and medical fields, etc., such as cell engineering and medical engineering.

Problems solved by technology

However, cyanoacrylate adhesive agents are synthetic agents which are not originally endogenous, and prevent healing by producing formaldehyde by hydrolyzation of a cured monomer, which causes toxicity to living organisms.

Therefore, the problems exist that the site to be applied was limited, and the adhesive agents should not be applied to a site near a central nerve or blood vessel.

Although the gelatin-aldehyde adhesive agents also have sufficiently high adhesive intensity, since toxic aldehyde compounds are employed as a cross-linking agent, they are also biologically toxic.

Although this type of adhesive agent is less toxic than the above described synthetic adhesive agents, the adhesiveness is low, and large amounts of fibrin glue should be used, since the fibrin glue itself is metabolized in vivo.

Further, recently, some problems are being indicated relating to the topical inflammation at the site where the adhesive agent has been applied, since the fibrin glue is prepared and purified heterogeneously or the mechanisms of the adhesiveness of the fibrin glue are the same as the blood coagulation reaction.

However, in cases where the cells are harvested by the above-mentioned chemical agent treatment, some disadvantages have been pointed out: the treatment method is cumbersome and complicated; the potential for contamination by impurities is increasing; and examples of defects, in which cells are caused to degenerate or are damaged by the chemical treatment, and lose their original function.

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