CLINIC COMPLIANT METHOD FOR BANKING HUMAN PLACENTAL MESENCHYMAL CELLS

• US 20100272694A1
• Filed: 10/17/2008
• Published: 10/28/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/17/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Affiliated Hospital of Nanyang Medical Academy
• Original Assignee: Affiliated Hospital of Nanyang Medical Academy
• Inventors: Wei, Jun, Liu, Ting, Wang, Libin, Zhang, Guangyi, Yang, Yinxue, Li, Yukui, Ma, Xiaona
• Application Number:
  US12/747,307
• Publication Number:
  US 20100272694A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 424/93.700
• CPC Class Codes: A01N 1/0221 Freeze-process protecting agents, i.e. substances protecting cells from effects of the physical process, e.g. cryoprotectants, osmolarity regulators like oncotic agents
• CPC Class Codes: A01N 1/0226 Physiologically active agents, i.e. substances affecting physiological processes of cells and tissue to be preserved, e.g. anti-oxidants or nutrients
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 35/50 Placenta; Placental stem cells; Amniotic fluid; Amnion; Amniotic stem cells
• CPC Class Codes: A61P 25/00 Drugs for disorders of the nervous system
• CPC Class Codes: A61P 25/16 Anti-Parkinson drugs
• CPC Class Codes: A61P 25/28 for treating neurodegenerative disorders of the central nervous system, e.g. nootropic agents, cognition enhancers, drugs for treating Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia
• CPC Class Codes: A61P 3/10 for hyperglycaemia, e.g. antidiabetics
• CPC Class Codes: A61P 7/00 Drugs for disorders of the blood or the extracellular fluid
• CPC Class Codes: A61P 9/00 Drugs for disorders of the cardiovascular system

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for processing human placental cell sample, a human placental cell sample obtained according to said method for processing human placental cell sample, a human placental cell bank, a method for banking human placental cells, a method for searching human placental cell sample in said human placental cell bank according to the present invention, a method for preparing human cord blood serum, use of human placental cells obtained by said method for processing human placental cell sample or human placental cell bank established by said method for banking human placental cells in treating human dysfunction and diseases due to cell injury or cell malfunction, as well as a method for treating human dysfunction and diseases due to cell injury or cell malfunction.

Claims

1. A method for processing human placental cell sample, characterized in that said method comprises steps as follows:

a. collecting human term placenta tissue, and protecting the tissue in DMEM containing 0.5% to 5%, preferably 1% of human cord blood serum;

b. isolating human placental amniotic and chorionic mersenchymal stromal cells from the placenta tissue obtained in step a;

c. in vitro expanding said human placental cells in a cell culture system that is free of any component of animal origin, and preferably said culture system is a DMEM-based medium, which further includes;

1). 5%-30%, preferably 10%-20% of human cord blood serum; and

2). 1% of penicillin/streptomycin solution;

d. determining antigen type (HLA-typing) of major histocompatibility (MHC) of the placental cells from each cell donor;

e. bar-coding the various HLA-typed cells obtained in step d and integrating HLA type information to registry information data for each cell donor;

f. preserving said placental mersenchymal stromal cells in cryopreservating solution and storing said cells in liquid nitrogen, and preferably, said cryopreservating solution is consisted of 50% human cord blood serum or autologous cord blood serum, 40% DMEM and 10% dimethyl sulphoxide (DMSO).

2. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the human cord blood serum used in said method is autologous cord blood serum which is obtained from autologous cord blood of the given placental mersenchymal stromal cell donor, therefore, said autologous cord blood serum and the placental mersenchymal stromal cells cultured with said serum are from the same donor.

3. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that:

the antigen type in step d is determined using a testing kit, and preferably but not exclusively, said testing kit is a PCR-based testing kit; and

/or bar codes of the various HLA-typed cells in step e are generated using an automatic digital bar-coding system, and preferably but not exclusively, said digital bar-coding system is Brady bar coding system TSL2200 (Brady, the United States).

4. Human placental mersenchymal stromal cells obtained using the method according to claim 1.

5. The human placental mersenchymal stromal cell bank, characterized in that placental mersenchymal stromal cells from each donor in said human placental mersenchymal stromal cell bank are obtained using the method according to claim 1.

6. A method for banking human placental mersenchymal stromal cells, characterized in that said method comprises:

1) processing human placental mersenchymal stromal cell sample of each person using the method according to claim 1;

2) establishing searchable record of cell information, and said record of cell information is a program for registering and managing bar-coding information and information of banked cells in a computer-based program which allows the bank content to be searched by both donor identification (ID) and HLA type.

7. The method for banking human placental mersenchymal stromal cells according to claim 6, characterized in that said searchable record of cell information includes:

a. searching entries;

(1) donor identification (ID) and (2) HLA type;

b. donor information;

(1) donor'"'"'s name, address, and phone number of donor'"'"'s parents, (2) donor'"'"'s birth date and gender, (3) delivery hospital; and

c. banking information;

(1) name of the person who certifies the cells for banking, (2) number of cells in each storage vial, number of vials stored, and location where each vial is stored, including building name, room number, liquid nitrogen tank number, rack number, cryopreservating box number, and position in the box.

8. The method for searching human placental cell sample in said human placental cell bank according to claim 5, said method comprising:

1) setting record of registry information for each sample, of which the content includes;

a. searching entries;

(1) donor ID, (2) HLA type;

b. donor information;

(1) donor'"'"'s name, address, and phone number of donor'"'"'s parents, (2) donor'"'"'s birth date and gender, (3) delivery hospital; and

c. banking information;

(1) name of the person who certifies the cells for banking, (2) number of cells in each storage vial, number of vials stored, and location where each vial is stored, including building name, room number, liquid nitrogen tank number, rack number, cryopreservating box number, and position in the box;

2) requests of donor'"'"'s parents for determining whether to make searching information available to the public; and

3) searching engine that is capable of searching the bank content using each and/or all of the searching entries respectively, and preferably but not exclusively, said searching engine is Tiger business management software (HD Tiger, China).

10. The use of human placental cells obtained using the method according to claim 1 or human placental cell bank established using the method according to claim 6 in treating human dysfunction and diseases due to cell injury or cell malfunction, and preferably, said human dysfunction and disease due to cell injury or cell malfunction is selected from the group consisting of Type I diabetes, neural injury, myocardial injury, Alzheimer'"'"'s disease and Parkinson'"'"'s Disease.

11. A method for treating human dysfunction and diseases due to cell injury or cell malfunction, said method comprising:

using human placental cells obtained by the method according claim 1 or human placental cell bank established by the method according to claim 6, wherein preferably said human dysfunction and disease due to cell injury or cell malfunction is selected from the group consisting of Type I diabetes, neural injury, myocardial injury, Alzheimer'"'"'s disease and Parkinson'"'"'s Disease.

9. A method for preparing autologous cord blood serum, and preferably said autologous cord blood serum is used as a component of medium for expanding placental mersenchymal stromal cells, wherein said method comprises steps as follows:

a. inserting the needle of a clinic syringe into the umbilical vein at the time of birth and taking the cord blood from the vein into the syringe;

b. transferring the blood to a 50 ml centrifuge tube that is free of anticoagulants;

c. allowing the blood to clot at 37°

C. for 30 to 60 minutes;

d. cooling the clotted blood at 0 to 5°

C. for 15 to 45 minutes;

e. having the blood centrifuged at 1000 g for 10 minutes; and

f. transferring the serum to a collecting tube and incubating the serum at 50 to 56 for 30 minutes.