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Principles of REGENERATIVE MEDICINE Prof. Paolo Macchiarini

Principles of REGENERATIVE MEDICINE Prof. Paolo Macchiarini. Regenerative Medicine is the process of creating living, functional tissues to repair or replace tissue or organ function lost due to age, disease, damage, or congenital defects. the shortage of organs available for donation

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Principles of REGENERATIVE MEDICINE Prof. Paolo Macchiarini

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  1. Principles of REGENERATIVE MEDICINE Prof. Paolo Macchiarini

  2. Regenerative Medicine is the process of creating living, functional tissues to repair or replace tissue or organ function lost due to age, disease, damage, or congenital defects. • the shortage of organs available for donation • organ transplant rejection

  3. Bioengineering Medicine Chemical Engineering Developmental Biology Molecular Biology Regenerative Medicine MaterialsScience Biochemistry Drug Delivery Genomics Proteomics Physiology Nanotechnology

  4. Regenerative Medicine in vitro approach: therapy studied inside the laboratory implanted in the body in vivo approach: studies performed inside the living body clinical use

  5. Regenerative Medicine Cell Therapy Tissue Engineering

  6. Cell Therapy • There are two ideas behind the use of cells as a medical treatment: • to provide a source of missing cells • to manipulate cells to produce a missing substance

  7. Cell Therapy • Transplated cells: • Mature, functional cells • Modified human cells • Transdifferentiated own patient’s cells • Non-human cells (xenotransplantation) • Stem cells (autologous or allogeneic)

  8. Stem Cells Self-renewing, undifferentiated, multipotent cells

  9. Stem Cells Embryonic Stem Cells Adult Stem Cells Derived from embryonic blastocysts Pluripotent Residue within adult tissues Multipotent

  10. Cell therapy challenges • Directing cells to the proper place • Integrating cells with the patient’s own tissue • Overcoming the phenomenon of tissue rejection

  11. Tissue Engineering Tissue Engineering is “an interdisciplinary field that applies the principles of engineering and life sciences toward the development of biological substitutes that restore, maintain, or improve tissue function or a whole organ“ (Langer R, Vacanti JP. Science 1993; 260: 920)

  12. Tissue Engineering approach in vitro cell expansion biopsy Scaffold seeding Static culture Implantation Dynamic culture

  13. Autologous cells Primary cells Allogeneic cells Secondary cells Cell sources Xenogenic cells Syngenic or isogenic cells Stem cells

  14. Scaffold • Allow cell attachment and migration • Deliver and retain cells and biochemical factors • Enable diffusion of vital cell nutrients and expressed products • Exert certain mechanical and biological influences to modify cell behaviour

  15. Biomaterials • easy and reproducible manufacture Synthetic • biocompatibility • non-immunogenicity Natural • suitable resorption rates

  16. Synthetic biomaterials Polylactic acid (PLA) Polyglycolic acid (PGA) Poly(e) caprolactone (PCL)

  17. Natural biomaterials Collagen Fibrin Chitosan Hyaluronic acid (glycosaminglycans) Extracellular matrix

  18. Challenges To obtain the suitable scaffold, to control the spatial distribution of cells, the proper combination of culture conditions/growth factors to allow the construction of a vital vascularized substitute with natural tissue anatomic, mechanical and antiinflammatory functions

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