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Transferring the exudate in the tissue engineering chamber as a trigger to incubate large amount adipose tissue in remote area
Author(s) -
Lei Chen,
Dong Ziqing,
Wan Jinlin,
Xiao Xiaolian,
Lu Feng,
Wang Biao
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.835
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1932-7005
pISSN - 1932-6254
DOI - 10.1002/term.2580
Subject(s) - tec , exudate , adipose tissue , drainage , anatomy , chemistry , biomedical engineering , medicine , biology , pathology , geology , biochemistry , ionosphere , ecology , geophysics
Tissue engineering chamber (TEC) is a technique that could incubate up to 16 folds volume increase of a fat flap. But the mechanism in the silicone chamber was still unknown. The function of exudate in the chamber was noticed recently. We developed a special model called fluid drainage model (FDM) that consisted of a traditional TEC on the back and paired fat flaps without a chamber in the groins. Then we used a silicon tube to dynamically transfer the exudate from dorsal TEC to one of the paired inguinal fat flap and the other inguinal fat flap with a sham tube was set as control. At Week 4, the volume of drainage group reached 8.7 ± 2.3 ml, 576 ± 152% to its original volume whereas the growth ratio of control group was only 130 ± 39%. Similar volume change and histological change were observed within fat flap from TEC model and drainage group. The exudate in the TEC is a heterogeneous cocktail contains cytokines as well as cells. Intriguingly, transferred exudate in the TEC model sustain the ability to incubate large amount of adipose tissue remotely.