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Survival of Allogeneic Self-Assembled Cultured Skin.

ABSTRACT: Deficiency of autologous skin for reconstruction of severe wounds is a major problem in plastic surgery. Autologous substitutes can provide additional coverage, but due to the duration of production, treatment is significantly delayed. The allogeneic approach offers a potential of having an off-the-shelf solution for the immediate application.In this study, we assess the engraftment and immunogenicity of allogeneic bilayered bioengineered skin prepared by a self-assembly method. Bioengineered skin has the potential immunological advantage of lacking passenger leukocytes including antigen-presenting cells. The skin constructs were transplanted across major histocompatibility complex (MHC) barriers in a porcine animal model. Animals received a second grafting of the same skin construct 7 weeks after the first set of grafts together with MHC-matched constructs to assess for clinical sensitization.All alloconstructs successfully engrafted with histologic evidence of neovascularization by day 4. Complete cellular rejection and tissue loss occurred by day 8 for most grafts. After the second application, accelerated rejection (<4 days) took place with the development of swine MHC-specific cytotoxic alloantibody.These data demonstrate preclinically that self-assembled allogeneic constructs engraft and reject similar to allogeneic skin despite the absence of professional donor antigen-presenting cells.

SUBMITTER: Climov M

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5030145 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Survival of Allogeneic Self-Assembled Cultured Skin.

Climov Mihail M Matar Abraham J AJ Farkash Evan A EA Medeiros Erika E Qiao Jizeng J Harrington Edward E Gusha Ashley A Al-Musa Ahmad A Sachs David H DH Randolph Mark M Bollenbach Thomas J TJ Huang Christene A CA

Transplantation 20161001 10

<h4>Background</h4>Deficiency of autologous skin for reconstruction of severe wounds is a major problem in plastic surgery. Autologous substitutes can provide additional coverage, but due to the duration of production, treatment is significantly delayed. The allogeneic approach offers a potential of having an off-the-shelf solution for the immediate application.<h4>Methods</h4>In this study, we assess the engraftment and immunogenicity of allogeneic bilayered bioengineered skin prepared by a sel ...[more]

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