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Regenerative Medicine Flashcards

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What is tissue regeneration?

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Regrowth of damaged tissue

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What organs can regenerate in a human adult?

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Liver, skin

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What tissue is in particularly gooNextd at regeneration and what tissues have no regenerative capacity at all?

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Epithelial is good at regeneration, whereas cartilage and nerve tissue have no regenerative capabilities

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What is tissue engineering?

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Practise of combining scaffold with cells and essential molecules for ECM formation into functional tissues

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What can tissue engineering be used for?

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Structural replacement, functional replacement (musculoskeletal) and wound healing

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What kind of cell is the best cell for engineering cartilage?

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Chondrocytes

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What is regenerative medicine?

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Includes tissue engineering and self-healing, and the use of foreign materials to rebuild tissues and organs

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What are the key ingredients for tissue engineering? (5 marks)

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Cells for the ECM

Xenogenetic cells

Sourcing cells from different biopsies e.g. bone marrow and placenta

Source cells from native tissue Bioactive molecules

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What are scaffolds?

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Natural products used to support new tissue. Made of protein/ polysaccharides derived from animals

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What do the cells used to make up the ECM need to do?

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Can synthesise and release bio-active molecules and they need to be able to reflect the nature of the cell tissue

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What are xenogenetic cells?

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Cells derived from different species

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How can we use mesenchymal stem cells for tissue engineering?

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Use them and Sox9 to push the cells down to differentiate into chondrocytes

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What are the bioactive molecules used for tissue engineering and what are they used to maintain?

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Growth factors, interleukins, anti-inflammatory molecules. They are used to maintain cells metabolism

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What are vegetative sources that you could use for ECM?

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Collagen fibres

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What is the benefit to using fibrin/ collagen fibres?

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They are more compatible and biodegradable

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What are 2 beneficial characteristics of collagen?

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High mechanical strength and low antigenicity

17
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What is low antigenicity?

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Something that won’t elicit an immune response

18
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What does fibronectin do? What is this a result of?

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Promotes cell adhesion through integrin surface of the cell this is due to motif RDG AA which attracts cell adhesion through integrins on the surface on plasma membranes

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What is a benefit to using a natural product?

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More biocompatible and biodegradable has inherent mechanical and biological properties consistent with in vivo features of a tissue

20
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What is a benefit of using synthetic bio materials?

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Can be moulded into variety of shapes and sizes

21
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What can an ACL injury lead to?

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Early onset arthritis or osteochondrosis dissecans

22
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What is osteochondrosis dissecans?

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Inflammation of bone and cartilage resulting in formation of loose fragments

23
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What is OCD characterised by?

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Spontaneous avascular necrosis, inflammation, genetic predisposition and repetitive microtrauma

24
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What is OCDs pathophysiology?

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Idiopathic focal joint disorder affecting subchondral bone

25
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How does OCD occur?

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  1. First get fragment of cartilage and subchondral bone that separate from articular surface.
  2. Secondly, you have early changes in subchondral underlying bone which will receive a low blood supply = osteonecrosis
  3. Then bone fragment loosens until it loosens the cartilage (decalcification) and if the cartilage is ruptured on 2 sides get displacement of cartilage and bone
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What can an untreated loose fragment of OCD lead to?

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Degenerative arthritis

27
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What is the process of tissue engineering autologous chondrocyte transplantation?

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=> Cartilage harvested from low weight bearing region (upper medial femoral condyle)

=>Cartilage digested

=>Cells seeded into tissue culture flasks at cell density of 5000-10000 cells per cm2 and maintained in autologous serum

=> Transplantation then 12-14 days after initial surgery chondrocyte trypsin treated and washed and resuspended in 500-1000ul vol of 2.5-2.6 mill cells

=>Chondral lesion excised to surrounding normal tissue. Cartilage defect covered w/ periosteal flap and sutured to normal cartilage, periosteal flap potential source of growth factors ad stem cells

=>Autologous chondrocytes injected between periosteal flap to initiate repair and remodelling of cartilage ECM

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What were the results found in the transplantation chondrocyte experiment?

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Knee locking was eliminated as well as reduced pain and swelling. Transplant tissue was spongy w/ some level of integration surrounding normal tissue

29
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Recap the stages of 1st generation ACL repair (chondrocyte transplantation).

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  1. Cell precursors - autologous chondrocytes from healthy cartilage
  2. Natural product - periosteum - source of stem cells and growth factors to maintain cell phenotype and promote to cover defects
  3. Sutures - sealing periosteal flap
  4. Modification of procedure use fibronectin and thrombin autologous to seal periosteal piece over defect
30
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What cell precursors (CP) and scaffolds are used in different generations of ACL under the autologous matrix induced chondrogenesis?

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1st gen ACL: CP - autologous chondrocytes scaffold - one but use of periosteal flap and collagen membrane

2nd gen: CP - autologous chondrocytes scaffold - hydrogels, fibrous scaffold, decellularized ECM

3rd gen: CP - allogenic stem cells, autologous stem cells scaffold - hydrogel, fibrous scaffold, decellularized ECM for composite

31
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What is easier to produce and use in ACL repair that doesn’t involve removing the periosteal flap?

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Using replacement bio material

32
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Why are mesenchymal cells being considered for stem cell therapy in osteoarthritis?

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Due to their ability to sourced from many or all joint tissues. Also able to undergo several rounds of cell division prior to differentiation into range of mesenchymal cell types

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