Abstract
Tissue-engineered nerve conduits are widely used for the study of peripheral nerve injury repair. With regard to repairing long nerve defects, stem-cell-derived neurons are recommended as seed cells. As hair-follicle neural crest stem cells (hfNCSCs) are easily to be harvested from patients and have the potential to differentiate into neuronal cells, hfNCSCs-derived neurons are an ideal candidate choice. Acellular nerve grafts, a type of biological material scaffold, with intact collagen structure, with biocompatibility and less toxicity are obtained through removing live cells with 1 % lysolecithin, are also an ideal choice. In the present report, we describe a tissue-engineered nerve conduit seeded with rat hfNCSCs-derived neurons into the beagle acellular sciatic nerve scaffold. Our goal is to provide a novel engineered therapeutic for repairing peripheral nerve injury with long distance defects.
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 81571211) and the Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai, China (no. 14ZR1449300).
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Liu, F., Lin, H., Zhang, C. (2016). Construction of Tissue-Engineered Nerve Conduits Seeded with Neurons Derived from Hair-Follicle Neural Crest Stem Cells. In: Hoffman, R. (eds) Multipotent Stem Cells of the Hair Follicle. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1453. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3786-8_5
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