Drug – bio-affecting and body treating compositions – Extract – body fluid – or cellular material of undetermined... – Digestive system
Patent
1996-11-12
1999-09-21
Witz, Jean C.
Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions
Extract, body fluid, or cellular material of undetermined...
Digestive system
673 11, 673 13, A61K 3538
Patent
active
059551100
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to tissue graft constructs useful in promoting regrowth and healing of damaged or diseased tissue structures. More particularly this invention is directed to submucosal tissue graft constructs formed from multiple strips of submucosal tissue of a warm-blooded vertebrate and a method for making said constructs.
BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is known that compositions comprising the tunica submucosa delaminated from both the tunica muscularis and at least the luminal portion of the tunica mucosa of the intestine of warm-blooded vertebrates can be used as tissue graft materials. See, for example, U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,902,508 and 5,281,422. The compositions described in those patents are characterized by excellent mechanical properties, including high compliance, a high burst pressure point, and an effective porosity index which allows such compositions to be used beneficially for vascular graft constructs and in connective tissue replacement applications. When used in such applications the submucosal graft constructs appear to serve as a matrix for the regrowth of the tissues replaced by the graft constructs. Significantly, too, in over 600 cross-species implants, submucosa-derived graft compositions have never been shown to elucidate a tissue graft rejection reaction.
Submucosa-derived matrices for use in accordance with the present invention are collagen based biodegradable matrices comprising highly conserved collagens, glycoproteins, proteoglycans, and glycosaminoglycans in their natural configuration and natural concentration. One extracellular collagenous matrix for use in this invention is submucosal tissue of a warm-blooded vertebrate. Submucosal tissue can be obtained from various sources, for example, intestinal tissue harvested from animals raised for meat production, including, pigs, cattle and sheep or other warm-blooded vertebrates. Vertebrate submucosal tissue is a plentiful by-product of commercial meat production operations and is thus a low cost tissue graft material.
One limitation of the submucosal graft constructs described in the above mentioned patents is that the size of the graft is restricted by the size of the source material from which the submucosal tissue is prepared. For example, the size of a submucosal tissue graft prepared from intestinal tissues is limited by the length and circumference of the source segments intestinal tissue. Yet several applications of submucosal tissue graft constructs, including hernia repair, skin graft, meningeal coverings, repair of gastroschisis (congenital stomach defects) and organ tissue replacement, often require larger sheets of graft material than can be prepared directly from natural sources.
Large sheets of submucosal tissue can be prepared from smaller segments of submucosal tissue through conventional techniques such as weaving, knitting or the use of adhesives. However, commercial implementation of such techniques are often impractical and expensive. Additionally the use of adhesives or chemical pretreatment to promote adhesion of the tissue strips can compromise the biotropic properties of the submucosal grafts. Thus there is a need for an inexpensive, easily manufactured, large area submucosal tissue graft construct that retains its biotropic properties.
In accordance with one embodiment of the present application large area submucosal tissue graft constructs are formed from multiple pieces of vertebrate submucosa-derived matrices. Unitary sheets (i.e., single piece graft constructs) of submucosal tissue are prepared in accordance with the present invention by fusing multiple strips of submucosal tissue to each other to form a sheet of tissue having a surface area larger than any one of the component strips of submucosal tissue. The present process comprises the steps of overlapping at least a portion of one strip of submucosal tissue with at least a portion of another strip of submucosal tissue and applying pressure at least to said overlapped portions under conditions allowin
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Badylak Stephen F.
Cheng Boyle
Hiles Michael C.
Kokini Klod
Patel Umesh H.
Methodist Hospital of Indiana Inc.
Purdue Research Foundation Inc.
Witz Jean C.
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