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US 5,914,264 AGranted
Apparatus for growing vertebrate skin in vitro
AssigneeReconstructive Technologies, LLC
InventorJoshua Korman
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Abstract
A method of growing complete vertebrate skin in vitro, which comprises obtaining a segment of vertebrate skin, positioning the skin segment in an artificial cell-growth medium containing sufficient nutrients to maintain growth of cells of the skin, and subjecting the skin segment to stretching forces while the skin segment is in the medium. Skin produced by the method and an apparatus for carrying out the method are also part of the present invention.
Claims27
An apparatus for culturing skin tissue, comprising:
- means for contacting a detached skin segment having a dermal layer side and an epidermal layer side in contact with a nutrient medium on at least the dermal layer side of said segment, and
- means for stretching said skin while maintaining said contact.
An apparatus for culturing a skin segment having a dermal layer side and an epidermal layer side, comprising:
- a container for nutrient medium,
- at least two connectors adapted to hold said skin segment in contact with said nutrient medium on at least the dermal layer side of said segment, said connectors being attached to said container and being capable of moving away from each other while maintaining said contact.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.