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ACS BIOMATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
Volume 3, Issue 9, Pages 2033-2049Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.7b00307
Keywords
osteoarthritis; cartilage; meniscus; nanomechanics; AFM
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- National Institutes of Health [AR066824]
- National Science Foundation [CMMI-1536233]
- U.S. Department of Education iCare for Healthcare Fellowship
- Drexel Areas of Research Excellence (DARE) initiative
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Our objective is to provide an in-depth review of the recent technical advances of atomic force microscopy (AFM)-based nanomechanical tests and their contribution to a better understanding and diagnosis of osteoarthritis (OA), as well as the repair of tissues undergoing degeneration during OA progression. We first summarize a range of technical approaches for AFM-based nanoindentation, including considerations in both experimental design and data analysis. We then provide a more detailed description of two recently developed modes of AFM-nanoindentation, a high-bandwidth nano-rheometer system for studying poroviscoelasticity and an immunofluorescence-guided nanomechanical mapping technique for delineating the pericellular matrix (PCM) and territorial/interterritorial matrix (T/IT-ECM) of surrounding cells in connective tissues. Next, we summarize recent applications of these approaches to three aspects of joint-related healthcare and disease: cartilage aging and OA, developmental biology and OA pathogenesis in murine models, and nanomechanics of the meniscus. These studies were performed over a hierarchy of length scales, from the molecular, cellular to the whole tissue level. The advances described here have contributed greatly to advancing the fundamental knowledge base for improved understanding, detection, and treatment of OA.
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