Abstract: The present invention provides a precursor for producing a tissue regenerating instrument that regenerates a tissue, including: a tube made of a biodegradable material provided with a lumen in a longitudinal direction; a rod made of a biodegradable material swellable with a softening solvent, fixed to an inner wall of the tube substantially parallel to the longitudinal direction of the tube; and an adhesive that fixes the rod to the inner wall of the tube, in which the rod in a non-swelled state has an occupied cross-sectional area perpendicular to the longitudinal direction that is smaller than a cross-sectional area of the lumen of the tube, and the occupied cross-sectional area perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the rod in a saturated swelled state with the softening solvent is substantially the same as the cross-sectional area of the lumen of the tube.

Abstract: The present invention provides a nerve regeneration-inducing tube in which nerve is inserted into a tubular structure and can be easily sutured and fixed without resort to any special instruments or operations, thereby allowing nerve cells to efficiently proliferate and grow in the correct direction. The nerve regeneration-inducing tube of the present invention includes: a tubular structure (A) made of a biodegradable material or a bioabsorbable material and provided inside with a matrix (B) having linear nerve-inducing channels and being made of a biodegradable material or a bioabsorbable material; and a definite space part provided at one end of the tubular structure (A).

Abstract: The present invention provides a precursor for producing a tissue regenerating instrument that regenerates a tissue, including: a tube made of a biodegradable material provided with a lumen in a longitudinal direction; a rod made of a biodegradable material swellable with a softening solvent, fixed to an inner wall of the tube substantially parallel to the longitudinal direction of the tube; and a fixing means that fixes the rod to the inner wall of the tube, in which the rod in a non-swelled state has a occupied cross-sectional area perpendicular to the longitudinal direction is smaller than a cross-sectional area of the lumen of the tube, and the occupied cross-sectional area perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the rod in a saturated swelled state with the softening solvent is substantially the same as the cross-sectional area of the lumen of the tube.

Abstract: An adhesion preventive membrane including a nonwoven fabric layer of collagen fibers, having on a surface thereof a coating layer containing a mixture of collagen and hyaluronic acid, or a method of producing a continuous collagen single strand, wherein a strand-like collagen is dehydrated/coagulated in a hydrophilic organic solvent having a water content of about 10% or less and then dried under conditions of a relative humidity of about 50% or less and a temperature of about 42° C. or less. A collagen nonwoven fabric of first and second layers composed of a plurality of collagen strand-like materials spun out of a solubilized collagen solution, and arranged in parallel, the first and second layers being laminated and bonded to each other so that directions of arrangements of the strand-like materials of the first and the second layers are at an angle therebetween.

Abstract: The present invention provides a nerve regeneration-inducing tube in which nerve is inserted into a tubular structure and can be easily sutured and fixed without resort to any special instruments or operations, thereby allowing nerve cells to efficiently proliferate and grow in the correct direction. The nerve regeneration-inducing tube of the present invention includes: a tubular structure (A) made of a biodegradable material or a bioabsorbable material and provided inside with a matrix (B) having linear nerve-inducing channels and being made of a biodegradable material or a bioabsorbable material; and a definite space part provided at one end of the tubular structure (A).

Abstract: This invention relates to an instrument for regenerating a living organism tissue or organ, characterized in that a support (A) formed from a biodegradable material or a bioabsorbable material includes a sponge-like fine matrix (B) formed from a biodegradable material or a bioabsorbable material and a linear guide channel (C) for a living organism tissue or organ.

Abstract: A cell culture vessel which has, sealed therein, hollow fibers having the function of a semipermeable membrane and a fibrous cell substrate being susceptible to attachment of cells, and has connecting parts communicating with the inner portion of the hollow fiber which opens at both ends of the hollow fiber and connecting parts communicating with the space between the hollow fiber and the vessel, wherein both ends of the hollow fibers are fixed to both end portions of the vessel by partitions so that the inner portion of the hollow fiber communicates with the exterior of the vessel, and wherein the cell substrate is housed in the space between the hollow fiber and the vessel; and a method for cell culture using the cell culture vessel. The cell culture vessel allows a high density culture of an animal cell, in particular, a cell prone to attach to a support.

Abstract: An adhesion preventive membrane including a nonwoven fabric layer of collagen fibers, having on a surface thereof a coating layer containing a mixture of collagen and hyaluronic acid, or a method of producing a continuous collagen single strand, wherein a strand-like collagen is dehydrated/coagulated in a hydrophilic organic solvent having a water content of about 10% or less and then dried under conditions of a relative humidity of about 50% or less and a temperature of about 42° C. or less. A collagen nonwoven fabric of first and second layers composed of a plurality of collagen strand-like materials spun out of a solubilized collagen solution, and arranged in parallel, the first and second layers being laminated and bonded to each other so that directions of arrangements of the strand-like materials of the first and the second layers are at an angle therebetween.

Abstract: This invention relates to an instrument for regenerating a living organism tissue or organ, characterized in that a support (A) formed from a biodegradable material or a bioabsorbable material includes a sponge-like fine matrix (B) formed from a biodegradable material or a bioabsorbable material and a linear guide channel (C) for a living organism tissue or organ.