The high functionalization of temperature-responsive culture dishes for establishing advanced cell sheet engineering

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (40) ◽  
pp. 8768 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazuyoshi Itoga ◽  
Teruo Okano
Author(s):  
Kenichi Nagase ◽  
Jun Kobayashi ◽  
Teruo Okano

Temperature-responsive intelligent surfaces, prepared by the modification of an interface with poly( N -isopropylacrylamide) and its derivatives, have been used for biomedical applications. Such surfaces exhibit temperature-responsive hydrophilic/hydrophobic alterations with external temperature changes, which, in turn, result in thermally modulated interactions with biomolecules and cells. In this review, we focus on the application of these intelligent surfaces to chromatographic separation and cell cultures. Chromatographic separations using several types of intelligent surfaces are mentioned briefly, and various effects related to the separation of bioactive compounds are discussed, including wettability, copolymer composition and graft polymer architecture. Similarly, we also summarize temperature-responsive cell culture substrates that allow the recovery of confluent cell monolayers as contiguous living cell sheets for tissue-engineering applications. The key factors in temperature-dependent cell adhesion/detachment control are discussed from the viewpoint of grafting temperature-responsive polymers, and new methodologies for effective cell sheet culturing and the construction of thick tissues are summarized.


Polymers ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 1478-1498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhonglan Tang ◽  
Yoshikatsu Akiyama ◽  
Teruo Okano

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Y. Akiyama

Temperature-responsive cell culture surfaces, which modulate cell attachment/detachment characteristics with temperature, have been used to fabricate cell sheets. Extensive study on fabrication of cell sheet with the temperature-responsive cell culture surface, manipulation, and transplantation of the cell sheet has established the interdisciplinary field of cell sheet engineering, in which engineering, biological, and medical fields closely collaborate. Such collaboration has pioneered cell sheet engineering, making it a promising and attractive technology in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. This review introduces concepts of cell sheet engineering, followed by designs for the fabrication of various types of temperature-responsive cell culture surfaces and technologies for cell sheet manipulation. The development of various methods for the fabrication of temperature-responsive cell culture surfaces was also summarized. The availability of cell sheet engineering for the treatment and regeneration of damaged human tissue has also been described, providing examples of the clinical application of cell sheet transplantation in humans.


2007 ◽  
Vol 32 (8-9) ◽  
pp. 1123-1133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masayuki Yamato ◽  
Yoshikatsu Akiyama ◽  
Jun Kobayashi ◽  
Joseph Yang ◽  
Akihiko Kikuchi ◽  
...  

2006 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 74-78
Author(s):  
Masayuki Yamato ◽  
Teruo Okano

In order to realize true regenerative medicine, we have developed a novel technology for the reconstruction of tissues and organs by utilizing intelligent materials including temperature-responsive polymers. We developed temperature-responsive culture surfaces, on which temperature-responsive polymers are covalently immobilized. Cells are cultured on the surfaces at 37°C, and harvested as transplantable cell sheets by reducing temperature to 20°C. With these cell sheets we regenerate various kinds of tissues such as cornea and heart.


2006 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 70-73
Author(s):  
Teruo Okano

In order to avoid several complications resulted from biodegradable scaffolds or single cell injection, we have developed “cell sheet engineering”. Our concept is novel tissue reconstruction not from single cells but from cell sheets. In order to prepare cell sheets, temperature-responsive culture dishes are utilized. Since temperature-responsive polymers are covalently grafted on the dishes, various types of cells adhere and proliferate on them at 37°C, but are spontaneously detached only by reducing temperature below 32°C without any need for proteolytic enzyme. All the confluent cells are noninvasively harvested as a single contiguous cell sheets with intact cell-cell junctions and deposited extracellular matrix. We have utilized these harvested cell sheets for various tissue reconstructions including ocular surfaces, periodontal ligament, cardiac patches as well as bladder.


2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (36) ◽  
pp. 6012-6022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Bin Lee ◽  
Young Min Shin ◽  
Eun Mi Kim ◽  
Joong-yup Lee ◽  
Jangsoo Lim ◽  
...  

A cell sheet translocation system is developed based on a temperature-responsive hydrogel with modular cell adhesion properties by a mussel-inspired polydopamine coating.


MRS Bulletin ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 189-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Yang ◽  
Masayuki Yamato ◽  
Teruo Okano

AbstractThe possibility of recreating various tissues and organs for the purpose of regenerative medicine has received much interest. However, the field of tissue engineering has been restricted by the limitations of conventional approaches. A method to circumvent the need for traditional scaffold-based technologies is cell-sheet engineering, which uses temperature-responsive culture dishes. These surfaces, which are created by grafting the temperature-responsive polymer poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) onto ordinary culture dishes, enable the non-invasive harvesting of cells as intact sheets by simple temperature reduction. This article reviews current research on the applications of cell-sheet engineering for the reconstruction of various tissues, as well as the intelligent surfaces used by this novel technology.


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