Journal
ACS BIOMATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
Volume 7, Issue 8, Pages 3774-3782Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.0c01571
Keywords
alginate; gelatin methacrylate; gingival mesenchymal stem cells; wound healing; soft tissue regeneration
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- National Institute of Dental, Craniofacial Research [DE029876]
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The study demonstrated the potential of using GMSCs encapsulated in GelMA hydrogel for enhancing collagen deposition, accelerating wound healing and soft tissue regeneration. This approach may have applications in plastic and reconstructive surgery as well as dentistry.
Soft tissue reconstruction has remained a major clinical challenge in dentistry and regenerative medicine. Although current methods have shown partial success, there are several disadvantages associated with these approaches. Gingival mesenchymal stem cells (GMSCs) can be simply obtained in the oral cavity for soft tissue augmentation. Regenerative potential of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) encapsulated in hydrogels is well documented. Here, an alginate-gelatin methacrylate (GelMA) hydrogel formulation is developed encapsulating GMSCs within the developed hydrogel. The results confirm that the encapsulated MSCs remain viable within the hydrogel with enhanced collagen deposition. An excisional wound model in mice is utilized to evaluate the in vivo functionality of the GMSC-hydrogel construct for wound healing and soft tissue regeneration. The histology and immunofluorescence analyses confirm the effectiveness of the GMSC-hydrogel in expediting wound healing via enhancing angiogenesis and suppressing local proinflammatory cytokines. Altogether, the findings demonstrate that GMSCs encapsulated in an engineered hydrogel sheet based on alginate and GelMA can be used to expedite wound healing and soft tissue regeneration, with potential applications in plastic and reconstructive surgery as well as dentistry.
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