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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2014
The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc., Boston, MA (US);
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Jeffrey Michael Karp, Brookline, MA (US);
Xiaolei Yin, Quincy, MA (US);
Marc David Succi, Boston, MA (US);
Robert Samuel Langer, Newton, MA (US);
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc., Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
Described are cell culture solutions and systems for epithelial stem cell and organoid cultures, formation of epithelial constructs and uses of the same in transplantation. A single layer of epithelial cells that actively self-renews and is organized into crypts and villi clothes the intestine. It has been recently shown that the renewal of intestinal epithelium is driven by Lgr5+ intestinal stem cells (ISC) that reside at the base of these crypts (Barker et al., 2007). Lgr5+ stem cells can be isolated and cultured in vitro to form organoids containing crypt-vcllus structures that recapitulates the native intestinal epithelium (Sato et al., 2009).