Induced Auto-Regeneration with Adipose Tissue in Humans – Beyond Frontiers of Healing
Marco Aurelio Pellon*
Plastic Surgeon, Department of Regenerative Medicine Treatment of Burns and Complex Wounds, Clinica Sao Vicente, Brazil
Submission: December 01, 2020;Published: December 17, 2020
*Corresponding author: Marco Aurelio Pellom, Plastic Surgeon, Department of Regenerative Medicine Treatment of Burns and Complex Wounds, Clinica Sao Vicente, Brazi
How to cite this article: Marco A P. Induced Auto-Regeneration with Adipose Tissue in Humans – Beyond Frontiers of Healing. JOJ Dermatol & Cosmet. 2020; 3(4): 555617. DOI: 10.19080/JOJDC.2020.03.555617
Keywords:Facial Mobility; Malignant Tumors; Human Tissues; Blastema; Chronic Edema; Adipose Tissue; Stem Cells
Opinion
The search for regeneration of the face and other structures of the human body has undergone several attempts, based on complex surgical techniques with the use of transplantation of fragments or limbs removed from donors, followed by the administration of immunosuppressive drugs for the rest of the patient’s life. The results of these face transplants are far from ideal and the degree of dissatisfaction in these patients is very high, leading to cases of severe depression, treatment abandonment and even suicide. In addition to technical problems such as recovery of facial mobility, transplantation of an external anatomical unit differs greatly from transplantation of an internal organ, as its immune behavior is very different. The skin represents the interface between the internal environment of our body and the external environment, therefore it has a rich defense system specialized in responding to all sorts of invaders, which makes it extremely antigenic. For this reason, the doses of immunosuppressive drugs need to be higher and constantly adjusted. We know that immunosuppressants have several side effects such as the possibility of bacterial, viral or fungal infections, with the risk of sepsis, kidney failure and even an increased incidence of malignant tumors, which adds an additional risk to a previously healthy patient [1-5].
The expectation of the patient with severe facial deformity is resocialization, the recovery of self-esteem, in short, psychosocial well-being. In practice, none of these factors materialize. The transplant has little facial mimicry, chronic edema, and the patient still needs to take several medications daily, living with the perennial prospect of rejection or the possibility of manifesting some side effect to the use of immunosuppressants For all these reasons, I believe that this search has not yet ended and that the path of transplantation should be replaced by that of biomimetic regeneration, through three-dimensional self-regeneration triggered or induced by some biomolecular mediator. If we take into account that there are other vertebrate organisms that have this capacity, such as some fish or amphibians, in particular the Salamander, that manage to perform the complete and perfect self-regeneration of a lost limb and remember that in the fertilization of the human egg, only one cell will give rise to the entire complex structure of our body, we can conclude that there is a way to activate this function in human tissues, we just haven’t mastered this knowledge yet. In my way of thinking, as long as we continue on the path of transplants + immunosuppressants, the more we will move away from the chance of achieving this cellular unlocking that will start the self-regenerating process [5-10].
Human cells have 3 differentiation blocking moments. In the formation of the zygote, cells are totipotent, that is, they can differentiate into any human cell. After that, the first block occurs, when the cells become pluripotent and differentiate by leaflets: ectoderm, mesoderm and endoderm, then the second block will occur, when the cells become multipotent, differing only in cells of a specific leaflet, and the third block occurs when the cell becomes differentiated, that is to say unipotent, just reproducing itself. But human cells have the capacity to transdifferentiate and reprogram themselves, as occurs in the female breast, where adipose tissue is transdifferentiated in the mammary gland at puberty and pregnancy, and vice versa after breastfeeding. In the Salamander, the regenerative process begins with the formation of a conglomerate of pluripotent cells called blastema that, controlled by the sympathetic nervous system, are differentiating and walking towards the member that will be newly formed [10- 19].
It is important to note that the current concepts of adipose derived stem cells (ADSCs) are rudimentary and in many publications do not consider the intercellular crosstalk and the importance of the cellular niche as a micro anatomical metabolic unit, where several cells of the same tissue (including stem cells) complement their cellular and molecular capabilities to achieve a single goal, whether revascularization, regeneration or other. Another consideration to be made is how to control the regenerative mechanism: what form to take and when to stop. These messages are certainly memorized in the nuclear DNA of all our cells, like a map or three-dimensional (holographic?) architectural project. Still far from being a regeneration like that of Salamander, we have been able to obtain very surprising results using the adipose tissue as an inducer of cell trans differentiation in complex wounds, obtaining a regeneration of the lesion with revascularization, epithelial growth, absence of fibrosis and mimicking the aspect prior to injury, which I called “Salamander effect”, as you will see in the following examples (Figures 1-3).



Conclusion
The use of properly prepared adipose tissue as a modulator of the regeneration of human external lesions shows promising behavior in the desired complete regeneration of a lost limb or fragment.
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