Papers by Author: De Wu Liu

Abstract: Tetrandrine can inhibit the proliferation and collagen synthesis of fibroblasts in lung and liver tissue confirmed by a series of clinical research. In this chapter, we investigated the effect of Tetrandrine on the proliferation of human dermal fibroblasts derived from hypertrophic scars. The dermal fibroblasts were isolated from human hypertrophic scar tissues and cultured in vitro. Tetrandrine with different concentration were added to culture medium respectively. The proliferative activities were determined. The result show that when the concentration of added Tetrandrine increased from 5μg/ml to 80μg/ml, the proliferative activities of cultured dermal fibroblasts were decreased gradually in dose-dependent manner. It conclusions that Tetrandrine can obviously inhibit the proliferation of human dermal fibroblasts derived from hypertrophic scars.

Abstract: Human induced pluripotent stem cells is promising for regenerative medicine and tissue engineering. In this chapter, we focus on the culture and characteristics of human induced pluripotent stem cells. The induced pluripotent stem cells were plated on murine embryonic fibroblast feeder cells and expanded in human embryonic stem cells media contained basic fibroblast growth factor. The cells were passaged by collagenase IV digestion method and observed under invert microscope. The expression of alkaline phosphatase was detected by immunocytochemistry. The cultured induced pluripotent stem cells grew well and stability with similar characteristics of human embryonic stem cells. These cells also expressed alkaline phosphatase. They formed embryoid body in feeder-free and suspension culture conditions. The results provide an experimental basis for improvement of induction study and further application to generate patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cells.

Abstract: Epidermal stem cells are essential in wound healing, but their amount and activity are decreased in diabetes which contributes to the impaired healing. This study evaluated the efficacy of amniotic membrane loading epidermal stem cells in the management of impaired wound in diabetes. Epidermal stem cells derived from SD rats were isolated, cultured, identified and labled with BrdU in vitro. The wound model of diabetic rats were established, then amniotic membrane loading labled BrdU epidermal stem cells were implanted to impaired wound. The results showed that wound healing rate in amniotic membrane loading epidermal stem cells was significantly higher than that in control groups 14 days after treatment. BrdU-positive cells in the wounds and newborn epidermis were visible. This indicated that amniotic membrane loading epidermal stem cells accelerates epidermal migration of wound margin and wound epithelialization in diabetic rats.

Abstract: The development of skin tissue engineering provides a noninvasive method for skin restoration. Unfortunately, the lack of a vascular plexus leads to greater time for vascularization compared with native skin autografts and contributes to graft failure. Our purpose was to construct tissue-engineered skin with VEGF- modified human bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) as well as acellular dermal matrix(ADM) in vitro , Thus by increased vascular endothelial growth factor expression, which could prospectively improve vascularization of tissue-engineered skin for wound healing applications. To reach this aim, hMSCs were isolated and cultured with density gradient centrifugation combined with attachment culture method in vitro. Liposome- mediated gene transfer was used to generate a population of hMSCs overexpressing the gene encoding VEGF165. Then VEGF- modified hMSCs were seeded onto the surface of ADM. The experimental results showed that ADM we prepared has good compatibility with MSCs, the cells in ADM grew and proliferated well in vitro and the tissue - engineered skin with VEGF- modified hMSCs and ADM has been successfully constructed.