Progress in clinical application of umbilical cord blood cells / 中国输血杂志

In recent years, human cord blood has become an important source of stem cells, stromal cells and immune cells in cell therapy. Cord blood stem cells, as one of the sources of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, have been used to treat many malignant diseases, blood diseases, immunodeficiency diseases and inherited metabolic diseases. With the development of biological and medical technology, the application of cord blood has become more and more widespread. This article briefly introduces the research status and main clinical applications of cord blood stem cells and their derivatives.

An air-liquid interface model of human lung epithelium generated from bronchiolar epithelial cells proliferated using medium containing ROCK kinase inhibitor / 中国组织工程研究

BACKGROUND:Primary human lung epithelial cel s are difficult to be isolated and cultured in vitro, which is characterized as limited sources, low cel viability, slow proliferation capacity, and lacking of differentiation capability. OBJECTIVE:To establish an air-liquid interface model of lung epithelium by in vitro proliferation of human bronchiolar epithelial cel s, which is used for research on function of lung epithelial cel s. METHODS:Primary human bronchiolar epithelial cel s were isolated using Pronase and DNase I combined digestive methods, and then proliferated using medium containing ROCK kinase inhibitor. The proliferated cel s were used for establishment of the air-liquid interface epithelium model. Cel differentiation was identified using scanning electron microscope, phase contrast microscope and immunofluorescent staining. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:The primary human bronchiolar epithelial cel s could be expanded successful y using medium containing ROCK kinase inhibitor, and the basal cel marker Cytokeratin14 was preferential y expressed in the proliferated cel population, indicating that these basal cel s might be the main subpopulation of human lung epithelial stem cel s. Subsequently, the proliferated cel s under the air-liquid interface could differentiate into ciliated cel s and non-ciliated column cel s. The results suggest that the proliferation and differentiation of human bronchiolar epithelial cel s were maintained in the presence of ROCK kinase inhibitor, and the air-liquid interface could promote the differentiation of human bronchiolar epithelial cel s.