Ramachandra Rao Sista
- Associate Clinical Professor, Internal Medicine
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- (602) 827-2078
- UA College of Med-Phoenix(Adm), Rm. 245019
- rsista@arizona.edu
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- Hintze, J. M., Tchoukalova, Y. D., Sista, R., Shah, M. K., Zhang, N., & Lott, D. G. (2018). Development of xeno-free epithelial differentiation media for adherent, non-expanded adipose stromal vascular cell cultures. Biochemical and biophysical research communications, 503(4), 3128-3133.More infoReconstruction of respiratory epithelium is critical for the fabrication of bioengineered airway implants. Epithelial differentiation is typically achieved using bovine pituitary extract (BPE). Due to the xenogenic nature and undefined composition of BPE, an alternative for human clinical applications, devoid of BPE, must be developed. The goal of this study was to develop two different BPE-free media, with and without select pituitary hormone (PH), which could initiate epithelial differentiation for use in human implantation.
