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JOURNAL OF TISSUE ENGINEERING AND REGENERATIVE MEDICINE
Volume 11, Issue 3, Pages 637-648Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/term.1959
Keywords
gellan gum; intervertebral disc; nucleus pulposus; mesenchymal stem cells; nasal chondrocytes; hydrogel
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- EU FP7 Project Disc Regeneration [NMP3-LA-2008-213904]
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Limitations of current treatments for intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration have promoted interest in the development of tissue-engineering approaches. Injectable hydrogels loaded with cells can be used as a substitute material for the inner IVD part, the nucleus pulposus (NP), and provide an opportunity for minimally invasive treatment of IVD degeneration. The NP is populated by chondrocyte-like cells; therefore, chondrocytes and mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), stimulated to differentiate along the chondrogenic lineage, could be used to promote NP regeneration. In this study, the in vitro and in vivo response of human bonemarrow-derivedMSCs and nasal chondrocytes (NCs) to modified gellan gum-based hydrogels was investigated. Both ionic-(iGG-MA) and photo-crosslinked (phGG-MA) methacrylated gellan gumhydrogels show no cytotoxicity in extraction assays withMSCs and NCs. Furthermore, the materials do not induce pro-inflammatory responses in endothelial cells. Moreover, MSCs and NCs can be encapsulated into the hydrogels and remain viable for at least 2 weeks, although apoptosis is observed in phGG-MA. Importantly, encapsulatedMSCs and NCs show signs of in vivo chondrogenesis in a subcutaneous implantation of iGG-MA. Altogether, the data endorse the potential use of modified gellan gumbased hydrogel as a suitable material in NP tissue engineering. Copyright (C) 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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