The authors thank Dr. Yukiko Koga of the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Juntendo University School of Medicine, for providing practical advice. We also thank Mr. Hidekazu Murata of the Diabetic Center of Tokyo Women&#8217;s Medical University School of Medicine for excellent technical support. This study was supported by the Creation of Innovation Centers for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research Areas Program of the Project for Developing Innovation Systems &#8220;Cell Sheet Tissue Engineering Center (CSTEC)&#8221; from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan.

All experimental protocols presented below were approved by the Animal Welfare Committee of Tokyo Women&#39;s Medical University School of Medicine and abided by all requirements of the Guidelines for Proper Conduct of Animal Experiments.
1. Preparation of Animals, Instruments, Culture Media, and Dishes
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The following authors disclose financial relationships relevant to this publication: Teruo Okano is a founder and director of the board of Cell Seed Inc., which licenses technology and patents from Tokyo Women's Medical University, and Teruo Okano and Masayuki Yamato are stakeholders in Cell Seed Inc. Tokyo Women's Medical University receives research funds from Cell Seed Inc. The other authors declare that they do not have financial relationships relevant to this publication.

The most critical steps for successfully culturing an rASC sheet are as follows: 1) The temperature must be maintained at approximately 37 &#176;C during culturing on the temperature-responsive culture dishes. During the creation of an rASC sheet, every procedure was performed on a 37 &#176;C thermo-plate, and every reagent was warmed to 37 &#176;C to prevent the cells from spontaneously detaching from the dish31. 2) The recipient ZDF rats must be monitored to prevent the removal of the non-adhesi...

The population of diabetic patients is increasing worldwide and reached 400 million in 20151; an estimated 15 - 25% of patients with diabetes are at risk from the progression of a lower-extremity diabetic ulcer2. Lower-extremity diabetic ulcers are intractable and might require a prolonged therapeutic period with rehabilitation training after complete recovery. A long therapy period often results in a significant reduction in patient quality of life. Thus, new therapies that decrease or prevent aggravation must be developed for the treatment of diabetic wounds. To evaluate diabetic wound healing, we optimized a diabetic ulcer wound-healing model in rats, which mimics practical clinical conditions, and evaluated whether transplanting adipose-derived stem cell (ASC) sheets using cell-sheet engineering accelerated wound healing.
Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) exhibit an excellent potential for accelerating wound healing because of their self-renewal capacity, their immunomodulatory effects, and their ability to differentiate into various cell lineages3. ASCs are a type of MSC derived from adipose tissue, and they exhibit several advantages over MSCs derived from other tissues, including their angiogenic potential and paracrine activity4,5. Adipose tissue is relatively abundant in the human body, and its accessibility allows for collection using minimally invasive procedures. Therefore, ASCs have been used experimentally for wound-healing applications6,7.
Previous reports have shown that the direct injection of single-cell MSC suspensions into areas around wounds can accelerate wound healing8,9. However, despite reports of the acceleration of wound healing in diabetic ulcer models following the injection of single-cell suspensions, the survival time of transplanted cells at the wound site is not clear.
In this study, we applied cell-sheet engineering using temperature-responsive culture dishes. These dishes have the temperature-responsive polymer N-isopropylacrylamide covalently bound onto their surface10. The grafted polymer layer allows for temperature-controlled cell adhesion to or detachment from the surface of the culture dish. The surface of the dish becomes hydrophobic at 37 &#176;C, allowing cells to adhere and proliferate, whereas cells spontaneously detach from the surface when it becomes hydrophilic at temperatures below 32 &#176;C. Cultured cells can be harvested as a contiguous cell sheet with intact cell-to-cell junctions and extracellular matrices (ECMs) simply by reducing the temperature; thus, proteolytic enzymes that damage the ECM, such as trypsin, are not required11. Therefore, cell-sheet engineering can preserve cell-to-cell connections and improve the efficacy of cell transplantation.
In addition, cell-sheet transplantation increases cell survival rates when compared to cell injection12.In this protocol, Zucker diabetic fatty (ZDF) rats were selected as a type 2 diabetes and obesity model with delayed wound healing. ZDF rats spontaneously develop obesity at approximately 4 weeks. They then develop type 2 diabetes with obesity between 8 and 12 weeks of age, at which point they exhibit hyperglycemia associated with insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, and hypertriglyceridemia13. Delayed wound healing, reduced blood flow in peripheral blood vessels, and diabetic nephropathy are also observed14,15,16. Moreover, ZDF rats might be an appropriate model for studying the healing of intractable cutaneous ulcers, such as diabetic ulcers.
The differences between humans and rodents in wound-healing mechanisms are associated with anatomical differences in the skin. Wound healing in normal rats is based on wound contraction, whereas wound healing in humans is based on re-epithelialization and granulation tissue formation. Typically, wound splinting used in rodent models helps to minimize wound contraction and allows for the gradual formation of granulation tissue17, although wounds in nondiabetic rats are almost completely closed by contraction. However, diabetic wound contraction in ZDF rats is impaired, and wound healing primarily occurs through re-epithelialization and granulation tissue formation; thus, this process is more similar to human wound healing14.
Diabetic wounds with exposed bone after debridement are often encountered clinically. Previous studies have examined 12-mm diameter full-thickness skin wounds on the backs of athymic nude mice18,19 and 10-mm diameter full-thickness skin wounds on the backs of normal mice20. To develop a clinical model for severe diabetic wounds, larger (15 x 10 mm2) full-thickness skin defects with exposed bone and without the periosteum were created, as previously described21, in rats with type 2 diabetes and obesity.
Rat ASC (rASC) sheets from the ASCs of normal Lewis rats were created through the allogenic transplantation of ASC sheets. In clinical practice, autologous transplantation is unfeasible because diabetic patients with ulcers often exhibit severe diabetic complications, such as uncontrolled high blood glucose levels and high body mass indices, and these complications cause wound-healing disorders that increase the difficulty of obtaining adipose tissue from these patients. Furthermore, ASCs from animals with diabetes exhibit altered properties and impaired function22. Therefore, the protocol presented here describes the allogenic transplantation of rASC sheets from normal rats and the application of artificial skin to diabetic rats.
The bilayer artificial skin used in this protocol prevents the spontaneous contraction of the wounds, promotes the synthesis of a new connective tissue matrix, and resembles the true dermis23. In this protocol, artificial skin is placed on an rASC sheet and fixed with nylon threads to prevent wound contraction or enlargement resulting from loose rat skin. In addition, the artificial skin provides a three-dimensional framework for the ASC sheets, maintains a moist environment for the transplanted ASC sheets and wounds, and protects the wounds from infection and external forces. Finally, a non-adhesive dressing is placed over the wound to protect it from external impact, maintain a moist wound environment, and absorb exudate.
An rASC sheet is thin, flexible, and deformable and can be adhered to moving recipient sites, such as a beating heart24. Cell-sheet engineering has been used for the reconstruction of various tissues and can generate curative effects25,26. ASC sheets that exhibit clinical therapeutic potential might accelerate the healing of many types of wounds. Moreover, the allogeneic transplantation of ASC sheets, combined with the use of artificial skin, might be applicable to the treatment of intractable ulcers or burns, such as those observed in peripheral arterial disease or collagen disease, or they may be administered to patients who are undernourished or are using steroids. This approach increases the efficiency of transplanting ASCs. The wound-healing ZDF rat model produces a severe wound condition that resembles the human wound healing process and mimics clinical conditions in a small-sized experimental animal.

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creation and transplantation of an adipose-derived stem cell (asc) sheet in a diabetic wound-healing model

Artificial skin has achieved considerable therapeutic results in clinical practice. However, artificial skin treatments for wounds in diabetic patients with impeded blood flow or with large wounds might be prolonged. Cell-based therapies have appeared as a new technique for the treatment of diabetic ulcers, and cell-sheet engineering has improved the efficacy of cell transplantation. A number of reports have suggested that adipose-derived stem cells (ASCs), a type of mesenchymal stromal cell (MSC), exhibit therapeutic potential due to their relative abundance in adipose tissue and their accessibility for collection when compared to MSCs from other tissues. Therefore, ASCs appear to be a good source of stem cells for therapeutic use. In this study, ASC sheets from the epididymal adipose fat of normal Lewis rats were successfully created using temperature-responsive culture dishes and normal culture medium containing ascorbic acid. The ASC sheets were transplanted into Zucker diabetic fatty (ZDF) rats, a rat model of type 2 diabetes and obesity, that exhibit diminished wound healing. A wound was created on the posterior cranial surface, ASC sheets were transplanted into the wound, and a bilayer artificial skin was used to cover the sheets. ZDF rats that received ASC sheets had better wound healing than ZDF rats without the transplantation of ASC sheets. This approach was limited because ASC sheets are sensitive to dry conditions, requiring the maintenance of a moist wound environment. Therefore, artificial skin was used to cover the ASC sheet to prevent drying. The allogenic transplantation of ASC sheets in combination with artificial skin might also be applicable to other intractable ulcers or burns, such as those observed with peripheral arterial disease and collagen disease, and might be administered to patients who are undernourished or are using steroids. Thus, this treatment might be the first step towards improving the therapeutic options for diabetic wound healing.

This protocol attempted to establish a new cell-based therapy for intractable diabetic wounds. Briefly (as illustrated in Figure 1), allogeneic rASC sheets were created from normal rats using cell-sheet engineering and were then transplanted using a bilayer of artificial skin onto a full-thickness skin defect on a diabetic rat. Light microscope images of a good example of an rASC sheet (Figure 2A) and a bad example of an rASC sheet (Figure 2B</str...

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Creation and Transplantation of an Adipose-derived Stem Cell ASC Sheet in a Diabetic Wound-healing Model

Adipose-derived stem cells (ASCs) are easily isolated and harvested from the fat of normal rats. ASC sheets can be created using cell-sheet engineering and can be transplanted into Zucker diabetic fatty rats exhibiting full-thickness skin defects with exposed bone and then covered with a bilayer of artificial skin.

Creation and Transplantation of an Adipose-derived Stem Cell (ASC) Sheet in a Diabetic Wound-healing Model

Artificial skin has achieved considerable therapeutic results in clinical practice. However, artificial skin treatments for wounds in diabetic patients ...

The overall goal of this procedure is to verify the effect of adipose-derived stem cell sheets combined with artificial skin on wound healing for a large full-thickness skin defect in diabetic rat. This method can help answer key questions about healing of chronic wound, such as diabetic large wound with exposed bone. The main advantage of this technique is that cells are transplanted to the wound in solid sheets using cell sheet technology, and the result is a viable, stable transplant.For a fat pad donor, plan to use eight to 33 week old Lewis rats. At the surgical site, have ready several sterile cotton-tipped applicators, gauzes, a scalpel, a needle holder, operating scissors, a pair of forceps, and 5-0 nylon suture. For temporary tissue placement, load a 100 milliliter petri dish with 10 milliliters of PBS.Weigh the PBS-loaded dish to later find the mass of the harvested tissue. After anesthetizing the rat, position it supine on a sterile drape. Then, shave the operative area and scrub the exposed skin using several alternating scrubs of 70%ethanol.Now, make a three centimeter skin incision in the lateral lower abdomen. Next, expose and dissect the external oblique muscle. Then, expose the epididymal adipose tissue surrounding the epididymis.Next, carefully excise the epididymal adipose tissue. Avoid damaging the epididymis, testes, and epididymal blood vessels. Transfer the tissue into the dish of PBS.Then, close up the donor rat and follow standard postoperative care practices. Isolate the ASCs from two to three grams of harvested adipose tissue. Digest the tissue for an hour in 0.1%type A collagenase to obtain the stromal vascular fraction, or SVF.After purifying the SVF, suspend the SVF in 20 milliliters of media. Split the suspension into two 60 square centimeter culture dishes, and culture them for 24 hours under standard conditions. The next day, wash the plates with PBS three times to remove any unattached cells and debris.After the final wash, add back fresh complete medium. Then, continue to passage the cells until they are nearly sub confluent on the third day of culturing. Then, using one milliliter of 0.25%trypsin EDTA in a brief incubation.Remove the cells from the plate. Do not let the cells be exposed to active trypsin more than 10 minutes. After observing and counting the cells, subculture them at a density of 1, 700 per square centimeter.Then, pass the cells every three days, and complete three passages before proceeding. After passing the subcultured rat ASCs for the third time, plate 150, 000 cells onto a 35 millimeter diameter temperature-responsive culture dish, and two milliliters of culture medium. Culture the dish for three days in an incubator to make a uniform cell sheet.Three days later, change the medium, and add 16.4 micrograms per milliliter of AA.Then culture the cells, changing the AA medium every other day. After four or five days on the AA-containing medium, check the proliferation of the ASCs. Look for gaps between the cells and the contiguous cell sheet.Once a contiguous cell sheet is established, the cells can be used for the model. When needed, collect the cell sheet by placing the plate at room temperature for 15 to 20 minutes. Because the plate is temperature sensitive, the cells will spontaneously detach as a contiguous sheet, and the sheet can be removed with forceps.For the obesity wound healing model, use adult male ZDF rats, 16 to 18 weeks old weighing between 500 and 600 grams. Position and anesthetize rat on the surgical field, and before shaving the head, clean it using 70%ethanol. Then, shave the operative area and clean the exposed skin with alternating scrubs of 70%ethanol.Around this time, transfer the temperature sensitive plate of adipose stem cells to the bench. Before the cell sheet detaches from the plate, remove the medium and wash the cell sheet with PBS three times. After collecting the cell sheet, soak it in PBS until needed.Once the cells are ready, make a 15 by 10 millimeter full-thickness skin defect on the rat's head. First, remove the cutaneous tissue down to the periosteum. Then, excise the skin an cutaneous tissue with a scalpel and a pair of surgical scissors.To complete the defect, remove the periosteum with the periosteal raspatory. Then place the cell sheet over the defect. The stem cell sheet is soft and flexible.Use forceps to extend it to every corner of the defect. Now, cover the cell sheet and defect with a 10 by 15 millimeter patch of artificial skin soaked in saline right before use, and close the wound with approximately 10 stitches using 5-0 nylon suture. To protect the wound, use 5-0 nylon suture to secure a 15 by 20 millimeter patch of non-adhesive dressing over the artificial skin.Plan to observe the dressing every other day, because the rat will invariably remove it, and if needed, replace the dressing promptly. In two groups of six Zucker diabetic fatty rats, the described protocol was used to create a skull defect. Experimental rats were treated with a rat adipose stem cell sheet, and the controls were not.After 14 days, the wounds of the treatment group were significantly smaller than those of the controls. After watching this video, you should have a good understanding of how to make large wound with exposed bone in rats, and then treat that wound with adipose derived stem cells. While attempting this procedure, be sure to use strict temperature management during the entire process of using temperature responsive culture dishes.Otherwise, cells could spontaneously detach from the dishes, delaying your experiments.

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11.3K visualizações.  Tokyo Women's Medical University School of Medicine. The overall goal of this procedure is to verify the effect of adipose-derived stem cell sheets combined with artificial skin on wound healing for a large full-thickness skin defect in diabetic rat. This method can help answer key questions about healing of chronic wound, such as diabetic large wound with exposed bone. The main advantage of this technique is that cells are transplanted to the wound in solid sheets using cell sheet technology, and the result is a viable, stable transplant.