Hill's Pet Nutrition, Inc 1 article published in JoVE Medicine Transplantation of Adipose Tissue-Derived Stem Cell Sheet to Reduce Leakage After Partial Colectomy in A Rat Model Panithi Sukho1,2,3, Geesien S.A. Boersema4, Nicole Kops5, Johan F. Lange4, Jolle Kirpensteijn1,6, Jan Willem Hesselink1, Yvonne M. Bastiaansen-Jenniskens5, Femke Verseijden1,5 1Department of Clinical Sciences of Companion Animals, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, 2Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, 3Department of Clinical Sciences and Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Mahidol University, 4Department of Surgery, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, 5Department of Orthopaedics, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, 6 The preparation and transplantation of adipose tissue derived stem cell (ASC) sheets onto insufficiently sutured colorectal anastomoses in a rat model is presented. This novel application shows that ASC sheets can reduce colorectal anastomosis leakage.
