Using Cultrex ® BME, MimEX ™ Tissue Models System provides a platform for the isolation, expansion, and differentiation of
adult epithelial stem cells into 3 - D ex vivo organ tissue.
A membrane — designed to support the cultivation and differentiation of human
nasal epithelial stem cells — was inserted into a small chamber on the device and fresh or contaminated air was fed through a tiny channel.
Her group is particularly interested in the cellular and molecular mechanisms which control
lung epithelial stem cell fate decisions.
Three years after publishing a groundbreaking paper in which she isolated adult retinal
pigment epithelial stem cells, Temple is in preclinical trials with rats.
The team's findings may also be relevant to inflammatory disorders that affect other parts of the body, such as the linings of the gut and bowel, which, like the skin, are replenished
by epithelial stem cells.
This distribution helps to maintain the health and rapid proliferation rate of adult
epithelial stem cells using MimEX ™ Tissue Model Systems.
A new study by Reichenbach et al (2018) reports coordinated proliferation of three
distinct epithelial stem cell niches and a role for glutamate transporter Slc1a3 in synchronisation of activated stem and progenitor cells.
MimEX ™ Tissue Model Systems harnesses the unique characteristics of adult ground -
state epithelial stem cells to generate ex vivo organ tissue that recapitulates native cytoarchitecture and mimics physiological attributes of the desired organ.
The stem cells in the bulge are
multipotent epithelial stem cells, and can become, or differentiate into, all the epithelial cell types in the follicle (including hair follicles, epidermis, and sebaceous glands)(Oshima et al., 2001).
However, our recent achievements in human
gastric epithelial stem cell cultivation now enables a more detailed characterization of the progenitors of the well - described ascending tissue pathologies culminating in cancer.
Interestingly, we detected upregulation of p16 and p15 in Polycomb - null
skin epithelial stem cells in young mice where it is normally detected only in aged animals.
Differentiation - related expression of a major 64K corneal keratin in vivo and in culture suggests limbal location of
corneal epithelial stem cells.
Existence of slow - cycling limbal epithelial basal cells that can be preferentially stimulated to proliferate: implications
on epithelial stem cells.
Creating human lung epithelial cells in the lab has been a challenge, and lineage - specific reporters, which indicate each cell's specific type, are key to understanding lung
epithelial stem cell development.
Five weeks after seeding the membrane with human
nasal epithelial stem cells the researchers could observe the formation of beating cilia.
Limbal epithelial stem cells (LESCs) reside in the basal layer of the limbal area, at the vascularised junction between the corneal and conjunctival epithelium.
MimEX ™ Tissue Models System provides a platform for the isolation, expansion, and differentiation of
adult epithelial stem cells into 3 - D ex vivo organ tissue.
«This is the first time anyone has made scalable amounts of
epithelial stem cells that are capable of generating the epithelial component of hair follicles,» Xu says.
Starting with procedures other research teams had previously worked out to convert iPSCs into keratinocytes, Xu's team demonstrated that by carefully controlling the timing of the growth factors the cells received, they could force the iPSCs to generate large numbers of
epithelial stem cells.
The epithelial stem cells, when implanted into immunocompromised mice, regenerated the different cell types of human skin and hair follicles, and even produced structurally recognizable hair shaft, raising the possibility that they may eventually enable hair regeneration in people.
Comparison of the gene expression patterns of the human iPSC - derived
epithelial stem cells with epithelial stem cells obtained from human hair follicles showed that the team had succeeded in producing the cells they set out to make in the first place.
Xiaowei «George» Xu, MD, PhD, associate professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Dermatology at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, and colleagues published in Nature Communications a method for converting adult cells into
epithelial stem cells (EpSCs), the first time anyone has achieved this in either humans or mice.
First, the MimEX ™ Cell Plating Procedure is used to maintain a uniform irradiated fibroblast monolayer for the rapid clonal expansion and efficient differentiation of tissue - specific adult
epithelial stem cells.
It involves isolation and propagation of adult
epithelial stem cells, prepared from tissue specimens at different early stages of chronic and atrophic gastritis, as well as from the late, premalignant (irreversible) stage of metaplasia.
For example, ΔNp63α is expressed in
epithelial stem cells, while TAp63α is expressed in fully differentiated cell types.