1. Pharmacologically active microcarriers associated with thermosensitive hydrogel as a growth factor releasing biomimetic 3D scaffold for cardiac tissue-engineering
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Jean-Pierre Karam, N. Claudia Montero-Menei, Claudio Muscari, Guillaume Bastiat, Marie-Claire Venier-Julienne, Francesca Bonafè, Laurence Sindji, Micro et Nanomédecines Biomimétiques (MINT), Université d'Angers (UA)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Bretagne Loire (UBL), Univ Angers, Okina, Karam, J.-P., Muscari, C., Sindji, L., Bastiat, G., Bonafe, F., Venier-Julienne, M.-C., and Montero-Menei, N.C.
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Models, Molecular ,Adipose-derived stem cells ,Glycofurol (PubMed CID: 110717) ,medicine.medical_treatment ,[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] ,Myocardial Infarction ,Pharmaceutical Science ,Adipose-derived stem cell ,Poly-d-lysine hydrobromide (PubMed CID: 16219815) ,Hydrogel, Polyethylene Glycol Dimethacrylate ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Mice ,Tissue engineering ,Polylactic Acid-Polyglycolic Acid Copolymer ,Biomimetics ,Insulin-Like Growth Factor I ,NIH 3T3 Cell ,Cells, Cultured ,Tissue Scaffolds ,Hepatocyte Growth Factor ,Stem Cells ,Temperature ,Poloxamer 188 (PubMed CID: 24751) ,Cell Differentiation ,Growth factor ,Cell biology ,[SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio] ,PLGA ,Pharmacologically active microcarriers ,Adipose Tissue ,Biomimetic ,Hepatocyte growth factor ,Stem cell ,Growth factors ,Human ,medicine.drug ,Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cell ,Poly(dl-lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PubChem CID: 23111554) ,Nanotechnology ,Stem Cell ,medicine ,Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells ,Pharmacologically active microcarrier ,Animals ,Humans ,Lactic Acid ,Laminin (PubMed CID: 44342165) ,Tissue Engineering ,Animal ,Myocardium ,Microcarrier ,In vitro ,Hydrogel ,chemistry ,NIH 3T3 Cells ,Polyglycolic Acid ,Homing (hematopoietic) - Abstract
International audience; The challenge of tissue engineering of the infarcted heart is how to improve stem cell engraftment, survival, homing, and differentiation for myocardial repair. We here propose to integrate human adipose-derived stem cells (ADSCs) and pharmacologically active microcarriers (PAMs), a three-dimensional (3D) carrier of cells and growth factors, into an injectable hydrogel (HG), to obtain a system that stimulates the survival and/or differentiation of the grafted cells toward a cardiac phenotype. PAMs are biodegradable and non-cytotoxic poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) microspheres conveying cells on their 3D surface that deliver continuously and in a controlled manner a growth factor (GF) acting on the transported cells and on the microenvironment to improve engraftment. The choice of the appropriate GF and its protection during the formulation process and delivery are essential. In this study two GFs, hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) and insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1), have been encapsulated under a solid state in order to limit their interaction with the polymer and conserve their integrity. GF precipitation conditions and release profile from PAMs have been first investigated before combining them to ADSCs. The released IGF-1 and HGF induced the protein synthesis of cardiac differentiation markers GATA4, Nkx2.5, cTnI and CX43 after 1 week in vitro. Moreover, the GFs accelerated cell cycle progression, as suggested by the increased expression of Cyclin D1 mRNA and the widespread distribution of Ki67 protein. Integrating PAMs within the thermosensitive P407 hydrogel increased their elastic properties but decreased the transcription of most cardiac markers. In contrast, CX43 expression increased in ADSC–PAM–GF complexes embedded within the hydrogel compared to the ADSCs cultured alone in the absence of P407. These results suggest that particulate scaffolds releasing HGF and IGF-1 may be beneficial for applications in tissue-engineering strategies for myocardial repair and the association with a P407 hydrogel can increase substrate elasticity and junction connections in ADSCs.
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- 2014
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