Standardized ready-to-use laboratory protocol to isolate primary human wound associated fibroblasts from infected wound samples for clinical applications

Monika, P and Chandraprabha, MN and Murthy, KNC and Waiker, PV and Rangarajan, A (2023) Standardized ready-to-use laboratory protocol to isolate primary human wound associated fibroblasts from infected wound samples for clinical applications. In: Journal of Microbiological Methods, 209 .

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Abstract

Owing to the importance of fibroblasts in healing of wounds, it is necessary to isolate and culture them under in vitro conditions for the purpose of understanding the wound biology, drug discovery and development of personalized treatment. Although, several fibroblast cell lines are commercially available, they fail to represent the patient associated parameters. However, establishing a primary fibroblast culture, especially from infected wound samples, is challenging as the sample is more prone to contamination and number of live cells will be minimum in heterogeneous population. Also, it takes lot of efforts and resources for optimization of the protocol to get good quality cell lines from wound samples necessitating multiple trials, resulting in large number of clinical samples to be processed. To the best of our knowledge, for the first time we are reporting the standardized protocol to isolate primary human fibroblasts from acute and chronic wound samples. In this study, various parameters such as explant size (1�2 mm), explant drying time (2 min), transportation and growth culture media (antibiotics (working concentrations 1�3) and serum concentration (10)) have been optimised. This can be altered for specific needs of cell in terms of both quality and quantity. Outcome of the work provides a ready-to-use protocol, which is very useful to those who want to initiate primary fibroblasts cell culture from infected wound samples either for clinical or research purpose. Further, these cultured primary wound associated fibroblasts have various clinical and biomedical applications in tissue grafting, treatment of burns and scars and wound regeneration especially in non-healing chronic wounds. © 2023

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Journal of Microbiological Methods
Publisher:	Elsevier B.V.
Additional Information:	The copyright for this article belongs to the Elsevier B.V.
Department/Centre:	Division of Biological Sciences > Molecular Reproduction, Development & Genetics
Date Deposited:	09 Jul 2023 17:34
Last Modified:	09 Jul 2023 17:34
URI:	https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/82088

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