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ArticleJournal of materials science. Materials in medicine2021

SDF-1α gene-activated collagen scaffold enhances provasculogenic response in a coculture of human endothelial cells with human adipose-derived stromal cells.

Ashang L Laiva, Fergal J O'Brien, Michael B Keogh

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Article in Journal of materials science. Materials in medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 42% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Ashang L LaivaTissue Engineering Research Group, Department of Anatomy and Regenerative Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 123 St. Stephen's Green, Dublin 2, Ireland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3810-8044
Fergal J O'BrienTissue Engineering Research Group, Department of Anatomy and Regenerative Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 123 St. Stephen's Green, Dublin 2, Ireland.
Michael B KeoghTissue Engineering Research Group, Department of Anatomy and Regenerative Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 123 St. Stephen's Green, Dublin 2, Ireland. mkeogh@rcsi-mub.com.
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland · IE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Novel biomaterials can be used to provide a better environment for cross talk between vessel forming endothelial cells and wound healing instructor stem cells for tissue regeneration. This study seeks to investigate if a collagen scaffold containing a proangiogenic gene encoding for the chemokine stromal-derived factor-1 alpha (SDF-1α GAS) could be used to enhance functional responses in a coculture of human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) and human adipose-derived stem/stromal cells (ADSCs). Functional responses were determined by (1) monitoring the amount of junctional adhesion molecule VE-cadherin released during 14 days culture, (2) expression of provasculogenic genes on the 14th day, and (3) the bioactivity of secreted factors on neurogenic human Schwann cells. When we compared our SDF-1α GAS with a gene-free scaffold, the results showed positive proangiogenic determination characterized by a transient yet controlled release of the VE-cadherin. On the 14th day, the coculture on the SDF-1α GAS showed enhanced maturation than its gene-free equivalent through the elevation of provasculogenic genes (SDF-1α-7.4-fold, CXCR4-1.5-fold, eNOS-1.5-fold). Furthermore, we also found that the coculture on SDF-1α GAS secretes bioactive factors that significantly (p < 0.01) enhanced human Schwann cells' clustering to develop toward Bünger band-like structures. Conclusively, this study reports that SDF-1α GAS could be used to produce a bioactive vascularized construct through the enhancement of the cooperative effects between endothelial cells and ADSCs.

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Tissue ScaffoldsChemokine CXCL12Coculture TechniquesCollagenHumansHuman Umbilical Vein Endothelial CellsMaterials TestingMesenchymal Stem CellsTissue EngineeringChemokine CXCL12Collagen

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PMID33677751
PMCPMC7936958
OpenAlexW3135730286

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