Figure 1.

An illustration of the described approach. After isolation of cells from adipose tissue secondary to liposuction, the obtained adipose-derived stem/stromal cells were directly transferred to the collagen and elastin matrix without additional cell culture steps. The cells were incubated on top of the material for different clinically relevant time periods (i.e., 1 and 3 h) for cellular matrix enrichment. For comparison, the cells were incubated with the matrices for 24 h.