Journal
ACS OMEGA
Volume 5, Issue 33, Pages 21015-21023Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.0c02580
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- Guangdong Province Special Innovation Project [2017KTSCX182]
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Chronic wounds caused by diabetic or venous diseases remain a social and healthcare burden. In this work, a new strategy is proposed in which injectable thermosensitive chitosan/collagen/beta-glycerophosphate (beta-GP) hydrogels were combined with three-dimensional mesenchymal stem cell (3D MSC) spheroids to accelerate chronic wound healing by enhanced vascularization and paracrine effects. Chitosan/collagen/beta-GP solution mixed with 3D MSC spheroids was rapidly transformed to a gel at body temperature by physical cross-linking, then overlapped the wounds fully and fitted to any shape of the wound. The results showed that the combination therapy exhibited a markedly therapeutic effect than the hydrogel-loaded two-dimensional (2D) MSCs or 2D MSCs alone. The hydrogel could provide an environment conductive to the attachment and proliferation of encapsulated MSCs, especially accelerating the proliferation and paracrine factor secretion of 3D MSC spheroids. These results supplied a novel alternative approach to treat chronic wounds caused by diabetic or venous diseases.
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