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BIOMATERIALS
卷 27, 期 8, 页码 1487-1495出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2005.09.018
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alginate; asialoglycoprotein receptor; galactosylated chitosan; hepatocyte; spheroid; coculture
Formation of primary hepatocyte spheroids in the hydrogel scaffold is a promising approach for enhancing liver-specific functions in liver tissue engineering as well as for developing bioartificial liver (BAL) devices. In the present study.. a highly porous hydrogel scaffold composed of alginate (AL) and galactosylated chitosan (GC) as a synthetic extracellular matrix (ECM) for hepatocytes was fabricated with 150-200 mu m pore size in diameter. Cell adhesion onto AL/GC and AL/chitosan film was 72.7 and 45% at I wt% of GC (or chitosan) to AL content whereas cell adhesion onto AL film was 28.5%. The optimal concentration of GC in AL/GC sponge was I wt% to AL content by the measurement of albumin secretion. Cell viabilities performed on AL and AL/GC sponges were 72.2 +/- 3.6 and 81.3 +/- 3.5% of control, respectively, after 10 days incubation. Hepatocytes were aggregated to form multicellular spheroids in AL/GC sponge with diameter enlarged up to about 100 pin, 36 h postseeding, whereas most of them in the AL sponge remained as single cells and only a few cells began to form aggregates. Intercellular molecules Such as connexin32 and E-cadherin genes related with cell-cell contact were expressed in hepatocytes within AL/GC sponge at 36 h after incubation, but not in AL sponge. Treatment with a gap junctional intercellular communication (GJIC) inhibitor, 18 beta-glycyrrhetinic acid, resulted in a 1.5-fold marked decrease in albumin secretion levels in AL/GC sponge. Specially, coculture of hepatocytes in AL and AL/GC sponges with NIH3T3 in a transwell insert resulted in enhanced increase of liver-specific functions, such as albumin secretion rates. ammonia elimination rates. and ethoxyresorufin-O-deethylase activity by cytochrome P4501A1, compared to those in hepatocyte monoculture. The results suggest that formation of hepatocyte spheroids in coculture system enhances liver-specific functions for the AL/GC sponge as a new synthetic ECM to design developed BAL devices. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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