Journal
BIOACTIVE MATERIALS
Volume 6, Issue 7, Pages 2029-2038Publisher
KEAI PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.bioactmat.2020.12.020
Keywords
Electrical microenvironment; Diabetes; Ferroelectric nanocomposites; Bone regeneration; Macrophage polarization
Funding
- National Key R&D Program of China [2018YFC1105303/04]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51772006, 31670993, 51973004, 81991505, 82022016]
- Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission Projects [Z181100002018001]
- Peking University Medicine Fund [PKU2020LCXQ009, BMU2020PYB029]
- Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province [2019JJ50779]
- Health and Family Planning Commission of Hunan Province [20180246]
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By fabricating a biomimetic electrical microenvironment using a nanocomposite membrane, inflammation in diabetic conditions was inhibited, leading to enhanced bone regeneration through the promotion of M2 macrophage phenotype.
Macrophage-mediated inflammation compromises bone repair in diabetic patients. Electrical signaling cues are known to regulate macrophage functions. However, the biological effects of electrical microenvironment from charged biomaterials on the immune response for regulating osteogenesis under diabetic conditions remain to be elucidated. Herein the endogeneous electrical microenvironment of native bone tissue was recapitulated by fabricating a ferroelectric BaTiO3/poly (vinylidene fluoridetrifluoroethylene) (BTO/P(VDF-TrFE)) nanocomposite membrane. In vitro, the polarized BaTiO3 /poly (vinylidene fluoridetrifluoroethylene) (BTO/P(VDFTrFE)) nanocomposite membranes inhibited high glucose-induced M1 -type inflammation, by effecting changes in cell morphology, M1 marker expression and pro-inflammatory cytokine secretion in macrophages. This led to enhanced osteogenic differentiation of human bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BM-MSCs). In vivo, the biomimetic electrical microenvironment recapitulated by the polarized nanocomposite membranes switched macrophage phenotype from the pro-inflammatory (M1) into the pro-healing (M2) phenotype, which in turn enhanced bone regeneration in rats with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Mechanistic studies revealed that the biomimetic electrical microenvironment attenuated pro-inflammatory M1 macrophage polarization under hyperglycemic conditions by suppressing expression of AKT2 and IRF5 within the PI3K-AKT signaling pathway, thereby inducing favorable osteo-immunomodulatory effects. Our study thus provides fundamental insights into the biological effects of restoring the electrical microenvironment conducive for osteogenesis under DM conditions, and offers an effective strategy to design functionalized biomaterials for bone regeneration therapy in diabetic patients.
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