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Research Group Headed by Professor Takashi Tsuji Succeeds in "Functional Hair Regeneration from Adult Stem Cells"

Tokyo, Apr 18, 2012 (JCN Newswire) - Organ replacement regenerative therapy is purported to enable the replacement of organs damaged by disease, injury or ageing in the foreseeable future. A research group led by Professor Takashi Tsuji (Professor in the Research Institute for Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, and Director of Organ Technologies Inc.) has provided a proof-of-concept for bioengineered organ replacement as a next stage of regenerative therapy.

Reporting in Nature Communications the group demonstrate that bioengineered hair follicle germ reconstructed from adult epithelial stem cells and dermal papilla cells can regenerate fully functional hair follicle and hair growth. Their bioengineered follicles showed restored hair cycles and piloerection through the rearrangement of follicular stem cells and their niches. The bioengineered hair follicle also developed the correct structures and formed proper connections with surrounding host tissues such as the epidermis, arrector pili muscle and nerve fibers. This study thus reveals the potential applications of adult tissue-derived follicular stem cells as a bioengineered organ replacement therapy.

The full press release can be seen and downloaded here:
http://www.researchsea.com/html/article.php/aid/7204/cid/1/

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The paper is available online here: http://www.nature.com/ncomms/index.html

Press release distributed by ResearchSEA on behalf of Tokyo University of Science.

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Apr 18, 2012
Source: Tokyo University of Science
Tokyo University of Science
From the Japan Corporate News Network
http://www.japancorp.net
Topic: Research and development