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TISSUE ENGINEERING PART A
Volume 17, Issue 7-8, Pages 877-888Publisher
MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2010.0256
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- Canadian Institutes of Health Research [MOP-86498, MOP-90283]
- Fonds de la Recherche en Sante du Quebec,'' Quebec, QC, Canada
- Faculte de Pharmacie, Universite Laval, Quebec, QC, Canada
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Previous studies have reported that well-defined culture conditions can improve keratinocytes terminal differentiation and reproducibility. The aim of our study was to compare skin substitutes cultured in a complete medium with those cultured in a serum-free medium at the air-liquid interface to optimize the self-assembly method. Skin substitutes, cultured in a serum-free medium over 7, 14, and 21 days, were compared with others cultured in a complete medium (5% serum) over the complete culture period. Masson's Trichrome staining showed that the substitutes cultured in a serum-free medium generated a well-developed and differentiated epidermis. Immunolabeling analyses between the substitutes cultured without serum and those cultured in complete serum showed similar expression of epidermal differentiation markers, dermo-epidermal junction, and dermal extracellular matrix components. On the basis of our Attenuated Total Reflectance-Fourier Transform Infrared (ATR-FTIR) results, the skin substitutes cultured in serum-free condition over 21 days of culture at the air-liquid interface showed lower frequencies of the CH2 symmetric mode of vibrations, which means a better lipid organization of the stratum corneum. No significant difference in hydrocortisone penetration was observed between serum-free medium substitutes and the controls. Results demonstrate that the absence of serum does not compromise the characteristics of the skin substitutes observed in this study.
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