BACKGROUND:Tissue engineering is an interdisciplinary field and its experimental safety covers a wide scope along with the increase in accidents of tissue engineering laboratories, the safety management in tissue engineering laboratories in universities has become an important public health problem. OBJECTIVE:To enhance the safety management strategies for tissue engineering laboratories in chinese universities and improve the safety management system. METHODS:PubMed, Elseveir, WanFang and CNKI databases were retrieved for the literatures concerning the biosafety, safety management of hazardous chemicals, waste, medical information, instrument operation and human body mechanics in tissue engineering laboratories, and then the status of laboratory management was analyzed. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:The status of safety management in tissue engineering laboratories in China is analyzed based on the technique characters and regulations on safety management. Management strategies for laboratory safety have been proposed according to the differences in relevant laboratory safety management between China and the US, such as regular training on laboratory safety, improving the safety consciousness of experimental staff, constructing the strict system access to laboratory, improving safety facilities, standardizing the experimental safety manual and appointing specialized safety management committee. Comprehensive and systematical regulations on laboratory safety management will ensure the smooth running of tissue engineering laboratories in universities, thus accelerating the development of tissue engineering.

BACKGROUND:The study confirmed that adding tricalcium phosphate or pearl powder in polylactic-co-glycolic acid can complement the performance of both, which provides a good environment for cels and makes a faster and better growth of cels. OBJECTIVE:We used polylactic-co-glycolic acid as matrix, composited with pearl powder or tricalcium phosphate to prepare scaffolds by low-temperature deposition manufacturing. METHODS:Low-temperature deposition manufacturing was utilized to prepare composite scaffold of polylactic-co-glycolic acid/pearl powder or polylactic-co-glycolic acid/tricalcium phosphate at the ratio of 10:0, 5:2, 7:3 and 6:4. Microstructure, contact angle and compression modulus of elasticity of scaffolds were detected. MC3T3-E1 cels basicaly fused at 1×104/cm3 were seeded in the pure nonporous polylactic-co-glycolic acid scaffold, pure polylactic-co-glycolic acid scaffold with holes, polylactic-co-glycolic acid/pearl powder at 5:2 and polylactic-co-glycolic acid/tricalcium phosphate at 5:2 separately for 1 and 3 hours. Cel adhesion rate was detected using flow cytometry. After incubation for 1, 4 and 7 days, cel proliferation was measured using Alamar Blue method. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:Pure polylactic-co-glycolic acid scaffold had cross-linked microporous structure, with pore size of 3-15 μm. Scaffolds ofpolylactic-co-glycolic acid/pearl powder at 5:2 or polylactic-co-glycolic acid/tricalcium phosphate at 5:2 had good continuous porous structure, with pore size of 10-25 μm. With increased content of pearl powder or tricalcium phosphate, the hydrophilicity of the composite scaffold increased. The addition of pearl powder or tricalcium phosphate could elevate compressive mechanical properties of the composite scaffold. With increased content, the mechanical property of the scaffold enhanced and then reduced. The addition of pearl powder or tricalcium phosphate improved the celular affinity of polylactic-co-glycolic acid and the biocompatibility of the scaffold. The biocompatibility of polylactic-co-glycolic acid/pearl powder scaffold at 5:2 was the best.

Serious femoral damages are a common human bone disease. Rebuilding the femur and studying its mechanical properties are a continuous medical research topic, but traditional femoral prosthesis often cause some problems such as prosthesis loosening. In this work, we selected a healthy male, took his femur scanning by CT, and rebuilt high-precision femur prototypes by Mimics10.0 software, then chose the material having good biocompatibility and biodegradable, utilizing low-temperature deposition manufacturing (LDM) technology for the femoral manufacturing. This approach, fabricating the femur via LDM technology, laid a foundation for the later research on the femoral implantation in the human body.
Adult ; Biocompatible Materials ; Cold Temperature ; Computer-Aided Design ; Femur ; diagnostic imaging ; injuries ; Humans ; Imaging, Three-Dimensional ; methods ; Male ; Prostheses and Implants ; Prosthesis Design ; Software ; Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Three-dimensionally controlled cell-assembly technique makes fabricating tissues and organs in vitro to be possible. However, for real tissues and organs with complex structure and various cells, fabricating tissues and organs in vitro need a technique that could assemble and locate multi cells and materials precisely in the space. Facing the needs of multi-cell assembly, we designed a mixer nozzle and the matching pulse switching circuit which based on the single-nozzle cell assembly system, and developed a multi-cell-assembly system. We also carried out some assembly experiments with this system using materials that were similar to the multi-component extracellular matrix materials. The results demonstrated that the system could assemble various cells and materials into three-dimensional inhomogeneous structures precisely.
Bioartificial Organs ; Cell Culture Techniques ; instrumentation ; Cell Physiological Phenomena ; Equipment Design ; methods ; Extracellular Matrix ; chemistry ; Humans ; Tissue Engineering ; methods

Objective To compare the therapeutic effects of 3 operative options with selective high level ligation of spermatic veins, transinguinal canal and renovated Potomo's laparoscopic manage-ment of varicocele. Methods From January 1990 to November 2006, 1075 primary varicocele above grade Ⅱ patients accepted the operations, of them, 685 patients had follow up data and were recruited into this study. These patients were divided into 3 groups according to the operative methods:group A (n=369) was treated with open selective high level ligation of spermatic veins, group B (n=218) was treated with open transinguinal canal operation, and group C (n=98) was treated by renovated Polo-mo's laparoscopic management of varicocele. The complications of the 3 operative methods were com-pared, such as recurrence rate, testicular atrophy rate, scrotal edema rate and semen analysis. The therapeutic effects of these 3 methods were evaluated. Results The recurrence rates of the 3 groups were 3.3%, 7.3% and 5.1%, respectively. Group A had significantly lower recurrence rate than group B, P<0.05. The testicular atrophy rates of 3 groups were 0.5%, 17.9% and 9.2%, respec-tively. There were significant differences among the 3 groups (P<0.05). The scrotal edema rates of the 3 groups were 1.4%, 17.4% and 16.3%, respectively. Group B and C had higher risk of scrotal edema than group A, P<0.05. For patients with ages younger than 30, the improved semen quality rate in group A was higher than in group B and C. The improved semen quality rate in each group of patients younger than 30 was higher than patients with age over 30. Conclusion The open selective high level ligation of spermatic veins is the best choice in the treatment for patients with primary sper-matic varicocele.

Objective To research the effect to the semen quality of the three operation methods of superiority of highly selective varicocele high ligation,transinguinal canal and laparoseopic of renovated polomo management of varicocele.Methods 561 patients in our hospital who charged by infertility had the operation were analyzed retrospectively and were recruited with primary varicocele above grade II for this study.These patients were divided into three group according to three kinds of operation methods of varicocele :group A was treated with highly selective varicocele high ligation and had 300 patients;group B was treated with transinguinal canal operation and had 181 patients; and group C was treated by laparescopic of renovated polomo operation with 80 patients.Through the comparing of the fertility ability of the three operation methods,to evaluate the therapeutic effect of the three methods.Results The increasing rates of the quality of semen in group B was higher than other groups if patients' ages were lower than 30.The increasing rates of the quality of semen in every group was also higher if patients' ages were lower than 30.No difference was found between three groups in natural conception rate (P＞0.05).Conclusion The methods of highly selective varieecele high ligation would be a better choice in the management of patients with primary varicecele because of higher quality of semen.