Hisato Nagano, Naoaki Mizuno, Hideyuki Sato, Eiji Mizutani, Ayaka Yanagida, Mayuko Kano, Mariko Kasai, Hiromi Yamamoto, Motoo Watanabe, Fabian Suchy, Hideki Masaki, Hiromitsu Nakauchi
Autologous skin grafting is a standard treatment for skin defects such as burns. No artificial skin substitutes are functionally equivalent to autologous skin grafts. The cultured epidermis lacks the dermis and does not engraft deep wounds. Although reconstituted skin, which consists of cultured epidermal cells on a synthetic dermal substitute, can engraft deep wounds, it requires the wound bed to be well-vascularized and lacks skin appendages. In this study, we successfully generate complete skin grafts with pluripotent stem cell-derived epidermis with appendages on p63 knockout embryos' dermis...
April 29, 2024: Nature Communications