Journal
JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS RESEARCH PART B-APPLIED BIOMATERIALS
Volume 88B, Issue 1, Pages 139-149Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jbm.b.31160
Keywords
cell culture; atomic force microscopy; cell adhesion; cell-material interactions; scanning electron microscopy
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- MIUR-FIRB [RBNE01458S_006]
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In designing new biomaterials, it is of outstanding importance to consider how cells respond to specific chemical and topographical features on the material surface. The behavior of most cell types in vivo is strictly related to specific chemical and topographical cues that characterize the extra cellular environment. In particular, during their lives cells react to topographical patterns such as those of the extracellular matrix (ECM), of micro and/or nanometric dimensions. The production of micrometric and/or nanometric features on artificial materials usually involves expensive and time-consuming methods of manufacturing, such as electron beam and colloidal lithography. In this article, different Teflon-like structured surfaces were deposited from tetranuoroethylene (C2F4)-fed plasmas, for the study of cell adhesion and growth. The reaction of different cell lines to different topographical features was evaluated and compared with cell behavior on flat samples with the same chemical composition. Cell adhesion was calculated from area covered by cells at different time of culture. Beside this, cell proliferation was determined with the MTT test. Cell morphology and filopodia interaction with the nanofeatures were also estimated by optical and scanning electron microscopy. A dramatic difference both in adhesion and growth was found between cells seeded on flat and rough surfaces with the density and spreading of adhered cells varying as a function of the roughness of coatings. (c) 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Biomed Mater Res Part B: Appl Biomater 88B: 139-149, 2009
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