Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
Volume 79, Issue -, Pages 687-695Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2015.05.050
Keywords
PLGA/gelatin nanofibers; Mesoporous silica nanoparticles; Electrospinning
Funding
- Biotechnology Committee, University of Isfahan, Iran [90/10769]
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Aligned poly lactic-co-glycolic acid (PLGA) and PLGA/gelatin nanofibrous scaffolds embedded with mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNPs) were fabricated using electrospinning method. The mean diameters of nanofibers were 641 +/- 24 nm for the pure PLGA scaffolds vs 418 +/- 85 nm and 267 +/- 58 nm for the PLGA/10 wt% MSNPs and the PLGA/gelatin/10 wt% MSNPs scaffolds, respectively. The contact angle measurement results (102 degrees +/- 6.7 for the pure ALGA scaffold vs 81 degrees +/- 6.8 and 18 degrees +/- 8.7 for the PLGA/10 wt% MSNPs and the PLGA/gelatin/10 wt% MSNPs scaffolds, respectively) revealed enhanced hydrophilicity of scaffolds upon incorporation of gelatin and MSNPs. Besides, embedding the scaffolds with MSNPs resulted in improved tensile mechanical properties. Cultivation of PC12 cells on the scaffolds demonstrated that introduction of MSNPs into PLGA and PLGA/gelatin matrices leads to the improved cell attachment and proliferation as well as long cellular processes. DAPI staining results indicated that cell proliferations on the PLGA/10 wt% MSNPs and the PLGA/gelatin/10 wt% MSNPs scaffolds were strikingly (nearly 2.5 and 3 folds, respectively) higher than that on the aligned pure PLGA scaffolds. These results suggest superior properties of silica nanoparticles-incorporated PLGA/gelatin eletrospun nanofibrous scaffolds for the stem cell culture and tissue engineering applications. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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