81 results about "Limbal stem cell" patented technology

A corneal appliance that is placed over an eye has a lens body and epithelial cells secured over the lens body. The epithelial cells of the appliance may be derived from cultured cells, including stem cells, such as limbal stem cells, or epithelial cell lines, or may include at least a portion of the epithelium of the eye on which the appliance is placed. The corneal appliance may have a cellular attachment element between the lens body and the epithelial cells to facilitate attachment of the epithelial cells over the lens body. The corneal appliance is intended to be used on a deepithelialized eye, which may be an eye that has had the epithelium fully or partially removed. The corneal appliance may be used to improve vision. Methods of producing the corneal appliance and of improving vision are also disclosed.

The present disclosure describes a tissue system with self-regenerating limbal stem cells, wherein the limbal stem cells are primarily undifferentiated stem cells (USCs). The tissue system is derived from isolated corneal limbal tissue, and is suitable for restoring ocular surface impairments, particularly those that result from limbal stem cell deficiencies. The tissue system is generated by selectively augmenting the tissue system for USCs, for example by selecting and sorting cells that express stem cell-specific surface markers, such as stage specific embryonic antigen marker 4 (SSEA-4). After isolation, the USCs are cultured on a tissue base in the presence of enriched medium to generate the tissue system, which is suitable for transplantation, implantation, or grafting.

A human corneal limbal stem cell-amnion tissue engineering complex using human corneal limbal fibroblasts as the trophoblast is characterized in that: it is close to the human corneal epithelium form in histology form, and is analogous to the human corneal epithelium in immunology phenotype, its ultrastructure shows that the connection between the cells grows mature and the connection between the epithelia and the amnion carrier is a close conglutination. The culture method includes the following steps: (1) preparing the amnion for culturing the human corneal limbal stem cell in vitro; (2) preparing the human corneal limbal fibroblast trophoblast; (3) preparing the human corneal epithelia suspension; (4) culturing the human corneal limbal stem cell-amnion complex. The human corneal limbal stem cell-amnion complex has analogous phenotype to the human corneal epithelium, and provides a safe and effective biology tissue engineering product to treat corneal limbal stem cell defective eye diseases.

This invention discloses the preparation for artificial corneal epithelium implants made up of skin dry cells and a usage in transplanting and repairing a blind eye skinsbecause of defecting limbus corneae dry cells. The artificial corneal epithelium implant applies skins of adult neck or milk goat ear edge in asepsis to purify skin dry cells with TC and clone selection, amplification with serum-free medium and detect the got dry cells with CK19, P63, integrin-beta1, label protein immune tissue then to vaccinate the purified dry cells on to human amnion frame of depithelial cell nurtured by serum-free medium for 21days. The cells are separated on the amnion to form stratified layers and become cell amnion implants. The cells are divided into 5-6 layers having the structure of normal cornea epithelia.

The invention discloses a limbal stem cell serum-free medium, consisting of the following raw materials (calculated by weight percent): DMEM/F12 60ml-90ml, BSA 0.5g-4g, EGF 1Mug-4Mug, insulin 0.1mg-1mg, hydrogen 20ug-100ug, cholera toxin 1ug-10ug, transferrin 0.1mg-1mg, selenious acid 0.1ug-1ug, GCLCM 10ml-40ml, penicillin 5*103IU-2*104IU and streptomycin 5*103IU-2*104IU. The invention adopts the method that the culture medium is added with fibroblast conditioned medium, and the nutritive factors are supplemented with the hormone and cytokine combination, fibroblast conditioned medium and BSA. As a result, the nutritive needs for long-time in-vitro expansion and cultivation of the limbal stem cell serum-free medium are satisfied, and the medium is serum-free and suitable for commercial production.

The invention relates to a preparation method and application thereof of an acellular conjunctiva matrix used as a tissue engineering corneal scaffold material. The method comprises the following steps: removing cell components in a bulbar conjunctiva first; preparing the acellular conjunctiva matrix; and taking the acellular conjunctiva matrix as a tissue engineering corneal scaffold. A rabbit corneal epithelium or an endothelial cell can form a good cell single layer on the scaffold, can construct a tissue engineering corneal epithelium or endothelium, and can successfully transplant the tissue engineering corneal epithelium or endothelium onto rabbit animal model eyes. The degradation time of the built tissue engineering cornea is longer, rabbit eyes have no obvious immune reject reaction, and the therapeutic effects on the lack of corneal limbus stem cells or the decompensation of the corneal endothelial cell function are obvious. The method and the application thereof have the advantages of simple preparation method, good biocompatibility, low antigenicity, easy growth and proliferation of seed cells, slow degradation, extensive bulbar conjunctiva sources and wide application and development prospects; and the transparency can be maintained all the time in the training process and after transplantation.

The invention discloses a cultural method for inducing a human embryonic stem cell to directionally differentiate into a corneal limbal stem cell, which comprises the following steps that firstly, a DMEM (Dulbecco's Modified Eagle Medium)/F12 conditioned medium is adopted to culture a human primary corneal limbal stem cell to prepare a corneal limbal stem cell conditioned medium, and then the corneal limbal stem cell conditioned medium is utilized and combined with IV type collagen culture in vitro to induce the human embryonic stem cell to directionally differentiate into the corneal limbal stem cell. According to the corneal limbal stem cell obtained by utilizing the cultural method, through light microscope observation in vitro, electron microscope observation, real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction, immunofluorescence, flow cytometry, cloning efficiency determination and the like, the induced cell has a similar shape and phenotype with a normal corneal limbal stem cell, has good differentiation and proliferation capacity in vitro, can be transferred in vitro for more than four generations and can be used as a seed cell for preparing a corneal graft.

The invention discloses a 3D model constructed in vitro by means of a serum-free culture medium as well as a construction method of the 3D model and relates to the technical field of biological materials in tissue engineering. Due to selection variety of seed cells and good in-vitro construction repeatability, industrial preparation of the 3D model can be realized. The model is an in-vitro model formed by primary corneal epithelial cells subjected to tissue isolation, limbal stem cells, immortalized corneal epithelial cells, primary oral epithelial cells or oral mucosa squamous cancer cell lines TR146 subjected to in-vitro amplification and stratified through the serum-free culture medium with an undersurface-gas-liquid surface staged culture method.

Compositions for use in treatment of a variety of tissue diseases include stem cells and stem cell released molecules (SRM's) suspended in an aqueous solution with a cellulosic material or other thickening agent. The stem cells and SRM's can be derived from one or more distinct cell lines. The SRM's can further include one or more mucins, cytokines, or growth factors. Exemplary formulations include stem cells and SRMs derived from epithelial stem cells, corneal limbal stem cells, and fibroblasts. Other compositions and methods for formulation thereof are described.

The invention provides a cornea metaphase preservation solution, and preparing and using methods thereof. The cornea metaphase preservation solution is a cell culture minimum essential medium (MDM) with chondroitin sulfate, low molecular dextran, L-glutamine, dexamethasone, tobramycin, 2-hydroxyethyl and Y-27632 added. The preservation solution not only can keep activity and normal morphology of cornea endothelial cells, but also can enhance viability of corneal limbus epithelial cells and improve clone ability of corneal limbus stem cells. And especially, a medium to long term preservation effect is obvious, phenomena of deformation, conjugation and the like of endothelial cells of a control group cornea do not appear in long term preservation, endothelial morphology of the control group cornea is consistent with endothelial morphology of a cornea preserved for 4 days, and the endothelial cells of the control group cornea are still regular and few in cell conjugation phenomena. The preservation solution can effectively prevent cell apoptosis phenomena during the process of preserving isolated cornea materials, increases activity and clone forming ability of the corneal limbus stem cells, and enables the cornea to maintain a transparent feature in a long preservation time.

The invention relates to the field of stem cell culture and in particular relates to a separation method of limbal stem cells. The separation method has the beneficial effects that limbal tissues are subjected to enzymolysis under the combined action of a compound enzyme by combining neutral protease with collagenase IV, thus ensuring obtainment of the cells through enzymolysis in a short time, reducing damages to the cells, increasing the cell yield and improving the purity of the obtained cells; the method is simple and convenient to operate, dispenses with high-end instruments and equipment and causes smaller damages to the cells; experiments show that by adopting the method provided by the invention to separate the limbal stem cells, every 1cm<3> of limbal tissues can obtain 8.4*10<5>-9.0*10<5> limbal stem cells, the positive rate of an antibody CX43 in the cells is 0, the positive rate of AE5 is 0.1%, the positive rate of BrdU is 70.1%, and the positive rate of PCNA is 82.1%; the separation method has obviously better effects than the prior art.

The invention discloses a composite membrane based on gelatin and amino acid, and a method for cultivating limbal stem cells (LSCs) on the membrane. A preparation method of the composite membrane comprises the steps of preparing methacrylic anhydride gelatin (Gelma) by utilizing the gelatin, methacrylic anhydride, Dulbecco phosphate buffered saline (DPBS) and distilled water under a controlled condition, preparing poly(ethylene glycol) diacrylate (PEGDA) by utilizing polyethylene glycol (PEG), benzene, triethylamine, acryloyl chloride and glacial ether under a controlled condition, obtaining an unsaturated polymer (U-PEA) by utilizing polymerization of amino acid, diol and diacid under a controlled condition or modification of methacrylic anhydride, and finally preparing the composite membrane by utilizing a reaction product by the action of a photoinitiator. The composite membrane can serve as a matrix layer to support growth of the LSCs on the membrane. The method is very simple and convenient to operate, simple in condition and good in repeatability; a prepared product is reliable in performance; and industrialization is very easy to realize.

The invention relates to a method for preparing an amniotic compound corneal limbus stem cell membrane, which comprises the following steps of: firstly, preparing a sterile amniotic membrane with epithelium removed, placing the epithelial surface of the amniotic membrane downwards on an end face of a sleeve made of a poly propylene material, and covering an embedded culture transwell on the amniotic membrane of the sleeve to obtain an amniotic-membrane-embedded culture mold; placing the culture mold in holes in a 6-hole plate on which a mouse embryonic fibroblast cell feeder layer is spread; and finally, preparing a corneal limbus stem cell suspension by using a digestion method, inoculating the suspension on the epithelial surface of the amniotic membrane, inoculating 2.0-3.0*10<5> corneal limbus stem cells for each culture mold, and culturing the corneal limbus stem cells for 10 days to obtain the amniotic compound corneal limbus stem cell membrane. Compared with the traditional amniotic membrane spreading method and the latex ring amniotic membrane fixing method, the amniotic compound corneal limbus stem cell membrane prepared with the method has flat amniotic membrane culturing surface and uniform corneal limbus stem cell stratified layer and especially has the advantage of convenience for clinic application and difficulty in rapture of the amniotic membrane.

The invention relates to a simple limbal stem cell separating and in-vitro culturing kit and method. The simple limbal stem cell separating and in-vitro culturing kit comprises tissue washing liquid, cold digestive juice, hot digestive juice and culturing liquid. The simple limbal stem cell separating and in-vitro culturing method includes the following steps: limbus tissue extracting, digesting and in-vitro culturing. By means of the simple limbal stem cell separating and in-vitro culturing kit and method, limbal stem cell separating and in-vitro culturing are carried out, operation is simple, the stem cell yield is high, damage to obtained stem cells is small, the appreciation capacity is high, and the in-vitro culturing success rate is high, and the reproducibility is good.

The invention discloses a preservation method for corneal limbus tissue. The method comprises a step of disinfecting fresh corneal limbus tissue and a step of air exposure preservation of the disinfected fresh corneal limbus tissue. The step of air exposure preservation is as follows: the fresh corneal limbus tissue is placed on a permeable covering film, preservation liquid or a cell culture medium capable of providing nutrients to the corneal limbus tissue is arranged below the covering film, epitheliums of cornea directly contact with air, the temperature of a culture environment in the step is 0 to 37 DEG C, and oxygen concentration is 0 to 20%. Compared to immersion preservation in the prior art, the preservation method provided in the invention has the following advantages: the structure of the preserved corneal limbus tissue is more integral; obvious apoptosis of the epitheliums of cornea does not occur; stem cells of corneal limbus can maintain high activity; and process flow is simple and reliable, is easy to implement, costs little and has other efficacy.

An NGF-containing pharmaceutical composition used for treating corneal epithelium injuries is disclosed. The composition includes an NGF (preferably a human-derived NGF). The composition (in a form of eye drops preferably) can promote proliferation and clonality capabilities of corneal limbal stem cells, and can effectively promote corneal epithelium injury healing including healing of continuous corneal epithelium injuries, diabetic keratopathy treatment, nervous keratitis treatment and treatment of corneal limbal stem cell deficiency.

The invention publishes a kind of method to stores the stem cell of corneal limbus by constructing planting piece of corneal epithelium without feeder layer. stores the stem cell of corneal limbus by constructing planting piece of corneal epithelium without feeder layer. It can stores self stem cell of corneal limbus for long time in order to satisfy the request of transporting, storing and proliferating stem cell of corneal limbus under different experimental conditions. The invention stores the stem cell of corneal limbus by constructing planting piece of corneal epithelium without feeder layer, to make that corneal epithelium rebuild self when stem cell of corneal limbus colobomas come true in clinic. The invention can successfully form planting piece of artificial corneal epithelium which can autoplastic graft to misshapen surface of cornea of corneal limbus stem cell and the effect to get eyesight back is obvious. So it has a wide application potency in clinic.

The invention relates to the field of stem cell culture, and in particular relates to application of AcSDKP in limbal stem cell separation culture and a method for culturing limbal stem cells. According to the culture medium provided by the invention, fetal calf serum is adopted to promote growth of limbal stem cells, and AcSDKP is adopted to inhibit growth of fibroblast. Therefore, by adopting the culture medium provided by the invention, limbal stem cells can be selectively separated, the purity of the limbal stem cells obtained through separation culture is improved, the number of the limbal stem cells obtained through separation culture is increased, and as growth of fibroblast is inhibited, the limbal stem cells are slightly affected by fibroblast secreta, and are in good dryness state. The experiment shows that when limbal stem cells are separated by using the culture medium provided by the invention, the positive rate of an antibody CX43 in cells is 0.1%, the positive rate of AE5 is 0.3%, the positive rate of BrdU is 50.3%, and the positive rate of PCNA is 45.9%. The effect is remarkably superior to that of the prior art.

The invention aims at providing an application of interleukin-6 to repairing of corneal epithelial injuries, namely, the application of the interleukin-6 to cultivating of ocular-surface corneal epithelial stem cells, treating of persistent corneal epithelial defects, treating of diabetic keratopathy, treating of neuropathic keratitis and treating of limbal-stem-cell deficiency diseases. By means of the application of the IL-6 to repairing of corneal epithelial injuries, the multiplication capacity and the clone formation capacity of corneal limbal stem cells can be promoted, repairing of injuries to corneal epithelium of normal mice can be further promoted, and the corneal limbal stem cells have the higher multiplication capacity and the higher clone formation capacity. The IL-6 can be used for cultivating ocular-surface corneal epithelial stem cells, treating persistent corneal epithelial defects, treating diabetic keratopathy, treating neuropathic keratitis and treating limbal-stem-cell deficiency diseases.

The invention provides an isolated limbal stem or progenitor cell (LSC) population or LSC-like population comprising a chemically synthesized, recombinant or isolated nucleic acid encoding PAX6 integrated into a chromosome, or alternatively, not integrated remaining as an extrachromosomal genetic material, wherein the isolated LSC population is substantially free of non-LSC cells or wherein the LSC-like population is substantially free of non-LSC-like cells, or wherein the isolated LSC or LSC-like population is substantially free of non-LSC and non-LSC-like cells and uses thereof.

The invention discloses a limbus corneae stem cell serum-free medium and a culture method thereof. The serum-free medium comprises a basic culture medium and additives, wherein the additives include human recombinant EGF, insulin, 3,3',5-triiodo-L-thyronine, hydrocortisone, forskolin, manganese sulfate monohydrate, sodium selenite, sodium metasilicate, ammonium metavanadate, nickel chloride hexahydrate, stannous chloride dihydrate, ethanol amine, phosphorylethanolamine, ammonium molybdate tetrahydrate, 4-hydroxyethylpiperazine ethane sulfonic acid, vitamin C, bovine serum albumin, lipid concentrate and serum substitution. The serum-free medium contains no fetal calf serum or any animal source ingredient, can supply sufficient nutrients and good environment needed by cell growth proliferation and can effectively replace the effect of serum, cells grow well, the cell purity and stability are improved, rapid and stable cell sources are provided for limbus corneae stem cell specificity mechanism research and transplantation therapy, and the clinic application prospect is wide.

The invention belongs to the field of tissue engineering and relates to a method for culturing a human limbus stem cell graft by taking a biological amnion as a carrier. According to the method disclosed by the invention, the biological amnion is used as the carrier for culturing a limbus stem cell, wherein the biological amnion is a freeze-dried human amnion which is irradiated and sterilized by colbalt-60; the safety of the biological amnion is higher than that of denuded amniotic membrane; and the biological amnion is easy to preserve and convenient to acquire and is widely used clinically. The method disclosed by the invention has the advantages that an acceptor can be prevented from being infected for a long term; the preparation process is simple; the pollution in the material obtaining and treating process can be reduced; limbus epithelial cells can be cultured more safely and conveniently; and the clinical application of the human limbus stem cell graft is promoted.