期刊
JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS RESEARCH PART A
卷 79A, 期 2, 页码 440-450出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.30942
关键词
anisotropic; alginate; biomaterial scaffold; tissue engineering; embryonic stem cells
资金
- NCI NIH HHS [T32 CA09126] Funding Source: Medline
Biomaterial scaffolds are fundamental components of strategies aimed at engineering a wide range of tissues. Scaffolds possessing uniform, oriented microtubular architectures could be ideal for multiple tissues, but are challenging to produce. Therefore, we developed hydrogel scaffolds possessing regular, tubular microstructures from self-assembled copper-capillary alginate gel (CCAG). To abrogate the rapid dissolution of CCAG in cell culture media, we treated it with oligochitosan and created a stable oligochitosan-CCAG (OCCAG) polyelectrolyte complex. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy confirmed polyelectrolyte complexation between alginate and oligochitosan. OCCAG retained capillary morphology, shrank anisotropically in bulk, lost Cu2+ ions, and maintained (71.9 +/- 5.65)% of its mass in cell culture media. Next, we seeded mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells within OCCAG scaffolds, and examined cell morphology and quantified cell growth and viability over four days. ES cells were guided to form cylindrical structures of staggered cells within scaffold capillaries. Analysis of the total cells recovered from the scaffolds revealed exponential cell growth (normalized to day 0) that was statistically similar to gelatinized-plate controls. OCCAG-cultured ES cell viability was also not significantly different from controls at day 4. CCAG-derived scaffolds can therefore serve as a unique platform for stem cell-based tissue engineering. (c) 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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