What is the skin Bank? – Arguments and facts

the Scientists of the Federal research and clinical center for physical-chemical medicine (fnkts PRODUCTS) has developed a technology for growing artificial skin for patients suffering from burns. About this report “Izvestia” with reference to the Director of the Federal scientific-clinical center of physico-clinical medicine, Federal medical-biological Agency Vadim Govorun.

By mid-2017 fnkts FKHM plans to create a Federal Bank of the skin, in which are stored samples of artificial leather. Upon admission to the hospital patient with burns, he’ll be able to transplant skin cells taken from the Bank. The main feature of the development is that the artificial flesh will not cause rejection in the patient.

“Modern gene-cell technology can grow the skin, does not cause immune response. The drug is made from the cells of some people, but to treat other, without causing rejection by the body. Thus we can avoid the main problem in organ transplantation. Us grown transplants are not recognized by the body as foreign. They draw” — said General Director of scientific clinical center FKHM Vadim Govorun.

what makes synthetic leather?

To make cultured skin cells come from human skin taken from the donor. They then undergo reprogramming — that is, going back into an embryonic state. These cells are in the process of braking of individual genes, for which the material acquires the property and not alienate the patient.

“I don’t know yet implemented we have the analogues of our development,” said head of the laboratory of biomedical technologies, Federal research and clinical centre FKHM Sergey Kiselev. He added that “foreign colleagues are working to create these drugs, but clinical trials also have not reached.”

what kind of skin will be stored in the Bank?

After you have carried out certain clinical procedures human skin cells frozen. They can be stored in this form for a very long time and remain suitable for transplanting.

In a jar of skin samples will be stored for future use in this way. As any drug, as needed, in this case — the admission of burn patients, artificially grown skin will quickly be delivered to the surgical site. There it thawed, the cells are quickened, and the skin will become suitable for transplanting.

As it is now transplanted skin cells?

Now, in practice, a foreign donor skin is not used for transplantation, as it is the inevitable rejection. The graft is usually grown from skin cells of a patient. It’s a long process — the creation of the flap the size of a palm requires 3-4 weeks. While this graft is grown, the damaged area is closed with temporary bandages.