Journal
FRONTIERS IN BIOENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 10, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2022.859927
Keywords
hydrogel; extracellular vesicles; biomaterials; secretome; mesenchymal stem cells
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81970663]
- Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning Province [2019-BS-277]
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Hydrogels, as representatives of biomaterials, have attracted much attention in the medical field. This review studies the safety and feasibility of hydrogel-encapsulated mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), as well as the enhancement of therapeutic effect through hydrogels.
Biomaterials have long been the focus of research and hydrogels are representatives thereof. Hydrogels have attracted much attention in the medical sciences, especially as a candidate drug-carrier. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) and MSC-derived secretome are a promising therapeutic method, owing to the intrinsic therapeutic properties thereof. The low cell retention and poor survival rate of MSCs make further research difficult, which is a problem that hydrogel encapsulation largely solved. In this review, safety and feasibility of hydrogel-encapsulated MSCs, the improvement of the survival, retention, and targeting, and the enhancement of their therapeutic effect by hydrogels were studied. The status of the hydrogel-encapsulated MSC secretome was also discussed.
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