Skin culture and process for preparing the same
First Claim
1. A skin cell culture which comprises:
- (1) a skin cell culture matrix comprising a collagen sponge, a collagen sheet or a collagen gel, said matrix being prepared in a structure provided with a plurality of projections, wherein said matrix has a thickness of at least 1 mm, and each of said projections has a width of at least 1 mm, said width being measured in at least one direction across a cross-section of said projections, and(2) skin-derived cells seeded and cultured on said matrix in said structure provided with a plurality of projections,wherein the resulting matrix bearing a culture of skin-derived cells is provided with a plurality of penetrating pores by the operation of said structure provided with a plurality of projections immediately before said skin cell culture is used to cover a skin defect.
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Abstract
A process for preparing a skin culture which comprises the following steps:
a) a step in which a skin culture matrix comprising a collagen sponge, a collagen sheet or a collagen gel is prepared in a means having a projection to provide said matrix with a penetrating pore,
b) a step in which a skin-derived cell is seeded and cultured on said matrix, and
c) a step in which the skin culture is provided with a penetrating pore by the means having the projection before said skin culture covers a skin defect, if necessary, the steps a) and b) are simultaneously carried out; a skin culture matrix and a skin culture obtained thereby. According to the present invention, a skin culture can be prepared wherein sufficient nutrition supply to epidermal cells and/or fibroblasts cultured and proliferated and discharge of exudate excessively pooled in the wound can be smoothly performed, while contraction is inhibited, by producing a penetrating pore in the culture skin before covering the wound with the culture skin with a means which requires no pretreatment in order to prevent the flowing out and losing of cells which are caused in seeding cells on a collagen matrix.
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1. A skin cell culture which comprises:
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(1) a skin cell culture matrix comprising a collagen sponge, a collagen sheet or a collagen gel, said matrix being prepared in a structure provided with a plurality of projections, wherein said matrix has a thickness of at least 1 mm, and each of said projections has a width of at least 1 mm, said width being measured in at least one direction across a cross-section of said projections, and (2) skin-derived cells seeded and cultured on said matrix in said structure provided with a plurality of projections, wherein the resulting matrix bearing a culture of skin-derived cells is provided with a plurality of penetrating pores by the operation of said structure provided with a plurality of projections immediately before said skin cell culture is used to cover a skin defect. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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