Skin Punch Biopsy Explant Culture for Derivation of Primary Human FibroblastsMalini Vangipuram 1, Dennis Ting 1, Sam Kim 1, Robert Diaz 1, Birgitt Schüle 1
1Basic Research Department, The Parkinson's Institute
The fibroblast explant culture protocol from human skin punch biopsies is a technically robust and simple way to derive skin cells within 4-8 weeks for banking of about 15-20 million cells at a low passage number.