摘要:
The present invention relates to a multipotent stem cell, multipotent cell populations, and an enriched multipotent cell population, each found in fetal, neonatal, pediatric, and adult biliary tree tissue and up to 72 hours post mortem (although preferentially, within 10 hours post mortem) and capable of maturing into multiple endodermal tissues that include liver, biliary and pancreatic tissues. The multipotent stem/progenitor cell and cell populations are found in peribiliary glands, and progenitors descending from them are present throughout the biliary tree including in the gallbladder. High numbers of the peribiliary glands are found in the branching locations of the biliary tree such as hilum, common hepatic duct, cystic duct, common duct, common hepato-pancreatic duct and gallbladder. Related multipotent cells, multipotent cell populations and their descendent progenitors are found throughout the biliary tree including in the gall bladder, which does not have peribiliary glands. Compositions comprising same, methods of identifying and isolating same, maintaining same in culture, expanding same in culture and differentiating or lineage restricting the same in vitro or in vivo to hepatic, biliary or pancreatic fates ( e.g ., as hepatocytes, cholangiocytes, and/or pancreatic islet cells) are also provided. Methods of using the multipotent cells and/or multipotent cell populations are also provided.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a multipotent stem cell, multipotent cell populations, and an enriched multipotent cell population, each found in fetal, neonatal, pediatric, and adult biliary tree tissue and up to 72 hours post mortem (although preferentially, within 10 hours post mortem) and capable of maturing into multiple endodermal tissues that include liver, biliary and pancreatic tissues. The multipotent stem/progenitor cell and cell populations are found in peribiliary glands, and progenitors descending from them are present throughout the biliary tree including in the gallbladder. High numbers of the peribiliary glands are found in the branching locations of the biliary tree such as hilum, common hepatic duct, cystic duct, common duct, common hepato-pancreatic duct and gallbladder. Related multipotent cells, multipotent cell populations and their descendent progenitors are found throughout the biliary tree including in the gall bladder, which does not have peribiliary glands. Compositions comprising same, methods of identifying and isolating same, maintaining same in culture, expanding same in culture and differentiating or lineage restricting the same in vitro or in vivo to hepatic, biliary or pancreatic fates (e.g., as hepatocytes, cholangiocytes, and/or pancreatic islet cells) are also provided. Methods of using the multipotent cells and/or multipotent cell populations are also provided.
摘要:
A device is described for the environmental reclamation of contaminated soils through the technology known as landfarming. According to the invention, such device provides one or more tubs (1) of a rigid material, (for example a metal material or a plastic material) each equipped with a sensing probe (3) of soil moisture to be inserted thereinto for reclamation, a watering unit (5), connected to said probe (3), and a collection point (4) of soil sample to allow analysis thereof. Preferably, the tub (1) has a bottom plane (2) tilted of 0.01% to 5%.
摘要:
The invention regards a method for realizing a waveguide in a substrate by means of a femtosecond laser system, the waveguide having a birefringence axis at a predetermined angle for at least a segment, such method including: - preparing a substrate in which the waveguide has to be realized, such substrate including a free surface onto which the pulsed laser beam is impinging; - positioning an immersion lens (9) apt to focus the laser beam in the substrate (10); - introducing a first optical element (11); - making the laser beam impinge on the first optical element (11), which directs the laser beam towards the immersion lens (9); - focusing the femtosecond pulsed laser beam (F) at a given depth inside the substrate (10), in order to induce a refractive index change in a volume of said substrate around the focus, wherein the laser beam (F) propagates in the substrate along a direction, said focusing including making the laser beam impinge on said immersion lens (9) in a first position; - varying the propagation direction of the laser beam (F) in the substrate (10), maintaining the beam focused, translating or rotating the first optical element (11), in order to operate a translation of the laser beam, to modify the impinging position of the laser beam on the immersion lens (9), in order to reach a first propagation direction forming a first non-zero angle (Θt) with respect to the normal direction to the free surface of the substrate; - translating the laser beam focus with respect to the substrate (10) in order to create a first waveguide segment (GD), defined by adjacent volumes in which the refractive index has been modified, wherein the birefringence axis of the formed first waveguide segment (GD) is at said fixed angle, which is a function of the first angle (Θt) describing the reached first propagation direction of the laser beam in the substrate.
摘要:
A method of repairing diseased or dysfunctional pancreas or liver is provided. The method involves preparation of a suspension of stem cells and/or progenitor cells such as biliary tree stem cells, hepatic stem cells, pancreatic stem cells or their descendants, committed progenitor cells, from healthy tissue of the patient or of the biliary tree of a non-autologous donor and engrafting the cells into the wall of bile ducts near to the organ to be treated. The graft consists of stem cells or progenitors that are admixed with biomaterials and, optionally, with cytokines and/or native epithelial-mesenchymal cells appropriate for the maturational lineage stage of the cells to be engrafted. The cells are specifically introduced to the hepato-pancreatic common duct of the subject for treatment of pancreatic conditions or to the bile duct wall near to the liver for treatment of liver conditions and allowed to migrate to the pancreas or to the liver and expand and then rebuild part or the entirety of the diseased or dysfunctional organ.