Journal
GELS
Volume 7, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/gels7020073
Keywords
hydrogel; sol-gel; hybrid material; collagen-mimetic peptide; cartilage tissue engineering; mesenchymal stromal cells
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- ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche)
- French National Research Agency [ANR-16-CE18-0003]
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-16-CE18-0003] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
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Researchers have developed a biomimetic chemical hydrogel based on silylated collagen-mimetic synthetic peptides, which successfully encapsulated MSCs and improved mechanical properties, resulting in prolonged survival of the embedded cells and enhanced expression of chondrocyte markers. This long-standing hybrid hydrogel shows promise as a synthetic and modular scaffold for cartilage tissue engineering.
Promising strategies for cartilage regeneration rely on the encapsulation of mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) in a hydrogel followed by an injection into the injured joint. Preclinical and clinical data using MSCs embedded in a collagen gel have demonstrated improvements in patients with focal lesions and osteoarthritis. However, an improvement is often observed in the short or medium term due to the loss of the chondrocyte capacity to produce the correct extracellular matrix and to respond to mechanical stimulation. Developing novel biomimetic materials with better chondroconductive and mechanical properties is still a challenge for cartilage engineering. Herein, we have designed a biomimetic chemical hydrogel based on silylated collagen-mimetic synthetic peptides having the ability to encapsulate MSCs using a biorthogonal sol-gel cross-linking reaction. By tuning the hydrogel composition using both mono- and bi-functional peptides, we succeeded in improving its mechanical properties, yielding a more elastic scaffold and achieving the survival of embedded MSCs for 21 days as well as the up-regulation of chondrocyte markers. This biomimetic long-standing hybrid hydrogel is of interest as a synthetic and modular scaffold for cartilage tissue engineering.
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