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Skin substitutes based on gellan gum with mechanical and penetration compatibility to native human skin

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WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.37557

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gellan gum; human dermal fibroblasts; human skin; hydrogel; penetration properties; skin substitutes; viscoelasticity

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This study presents a method to fabricate skin substitutes using a bacterial polysaccharide called gellan gum. Gelation was induced by a culture medium, resulting in hydrogels. The mechanical properties of the hydrogels were studied, and it was found that they had similar properties to native human skin. The hydrogels also demonstrated compatibility with cell growth and showed improved barrier function compared to other hydrogels and 3D skin models.
The study reports on a simple system to fabricate skin substitutes consisting of a naturally occurring bacterial polysaccharide gellan gum. Gelation was driven by the addition of a culture medium whose cations induced gellan gum crosslinking at physiological temperature, resulting in hydrogels. Human dermal fibroblasts were incorporated in these hydrogels and their mechanical, morphological, and penetration characteristics were studied. The mechanical properties were determined by means of oscillatory shear rheology, and a short linear viscoelastic regime was noted up to less than 1% of strain amplitude. The storage modulus increased with an increasing polymer concentration. The moduli were in the range noted for native human skin. After 2 weeks of fibroblast cultivation, the storage moduli showed signs of deterioration, so that a culture time of 2 weeks was proposed for further studies. Microscopic and fluorescent staining observations were documented. These depicted a crosslinked network structure in the hydrogels with a homogeneous distribution of cells and an assured cell viability of 2 weeks. H&E staining was also performed, which showed some traces of ECM formation in a few sections. Finally, caffeine penetration experiments were carried out with Franz diffusion cells. The hydrogels with a higher concentration of polymer containing cells showed an improved barrier function against caffeine compared to previously studied multicomponent hydrogels as well as commercially available 3D skin models. Therefore, these hydrogels displayed both mechanical and penetration compatibility with the ex vivo native human skin.

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