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TISSUE ENGINEERING PART A
Volume 20, Issue 21-22, Pages 2830-2839Publisher
MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2013.0506
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- Department of Defense [W81XWH-10-1-0947]
- NIH [AR-061575]
- Raymond and Beverly Sackler Center for Biomedical, Biological, Physical, and Engineering Sciences
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Lactoferrin (LF), a 78 kDa glycoprotein, has recently been recognized as an effector molecule in the skeleton due to its ability to decrease osteoclastogenesis and increase osteoblast proliferation, survival, and differentiation. The objective of the study is to investigate the feasibility of developing an injectable hydrogel from bovine lactoferrin (bLF) as a cell delivery vehicle. The study demonstrated the feasibility of cross-linking tyramine substituted bLF in the presence of horse radish peroxidase and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). The gel presented a mild environment to maintain mouse bone marrow-derived stromal cell (mBMSC) viability and proliferation. Stromal cells derived from multiple gene reporter transgenic mouse (Ibsp-Topaz/Dmp1-mCherry) line showed the ability of the cells to undergo osteogenic differentiation in the hydrogel when cultured in mineralization media. The cross-linked gel supported protein phosphorylation/de-phosphorylation in the encapsulated MC3T3-E1 cells. bLF and bLF gel also showed the ability to modulate growth factor production in mBMSCs.
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