title: Cell sheet technology for cardiac tissue engineering.
abstract: In this chapter, we describe the methods for the fabrication and transfer/transplantation of 3D tissues by using cell sheet technology for cardiac tissue regeneration. A temperature-responsive culture surface can be fabricated by grafting a temperature-responsive polymer, poly(N-isopropylacrylamide), onto a polystyrene cell culture surface. Cells cultured confluently on such a culture surface can be recovered as an intact cell sheet, and functional three-dimensional (3D) tissues can then be easily fabricated by layering the recovered cell sheets without any scaffolds or complicated manipulation. Cardiac cell sheets, myoblast sheets, mesenchymal stem cell sheets, cardiac progenitor cell sheets, etc., which are prepared from temperature-responsive culture surfaces, can be easily transplanted onto heart tissues of animal models, and those cell sheet constructs enhance the cell transplant efficiency, resulting in the induction of effective therapy.
authors: Institute of Advanced Biomedical Engineering and Science, TWIns, Tokyo Women's Medical University, 8-1 Kawada-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162-8666, Japan.
authors: Yuji
authors: Y
authors: Haraguchi
authors: Tatsuya
authors: T
authors: Shimizu
authors: Katsuhisa
authors: K
authors: Matsuura
authors: Hidekazu
authors: H
authors: Sekine
authors: Nobuyuki
authors: N
authors: Tanaka
authors: Kenjiro
authors: K
authors: Tadakuma
authors: Masayuki
authors: M
authors: Yamato
authors: Makoto
authors: M
authors: Kaneko
authors: Teruo
authors: T
authors: Okano
mesh_terms: D000180:Acrylic Resins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology; D000818:Animals; D018929:Cell Culture Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation*; D002460:Cell Line; D006321:Heart / Q000502:physiology; D051379:Mice; D009206:Myocardium / Q000166:cytology*; D011137:Polystyrenes / Q000737:chemistry; D044968:Regenerative Medicine; D023822:Tissue Engineering
chemical_list: D000180:Acrylic Resins; D011137:Polystyrenes; C052970:poly-N-isopropylacrylamide