Use of freshly isolated capillary endothelial cells for the immediate establishment of a monolayer on a vascular graft at surgery.
Use of freshly isolated capillary endothelial cells for the immediate establishment of a monolayer on a vascular graft at surgery.
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使用新鲜分离的毛细血管内皮细胞在手术时在血管移植物上立即建立单层细胞。
作者:
B. Jarrell;Stuart K. Williams;G. Stokes;Hubbard Fa;R. Carabasi;E. Koolpe;Deborah A. Greener;K. Pratt;Moritz Mj;Radomski Js
Endothelial seeding of vascular graft surfaces may lead to a less thrombogenic surface. We examined the feasibility of using microvessel endothelial cells derived from human fat for seeding purposes. Human fat was treated with collagenase for 24 minutes, washed, and purified in a Percoll gradient separation. This yielded 1.25 +/- 0.45 X 10(6) cells/gm of fat. After a 1-hour incubation on plasma-coated Dacron, 2.8 +/- 1.5 X 10(4) cells remained firmly adherent to the surface. When exposed to flow for 2 hours at a shear stress of 0 to 80 dyne/cm2, between 50% and 100% of the initially adherent cells remained adherent. Statistical analysis of this data failed to demonstrate a strong relationship between the number of adherent cells and the shear rate. Scanning electron microscopy demonstrated endothelial cells in various stages of attachment to the plasma-coated Dacron. Although most cells were still round and only focally attached to the surface, some cells were maximally flattened, forming cell-to-cell contact. Because of the high cell yield and the firm adherence characteristics, we conclude that microvessel endothelial cells may offer the possibility for confluent endothelial cell seeding of a graft at the time of surgical implantation without the need for cell culture.