ArticleBioengineering (Basel, Switzerland)2024
RNA Sequencing Revealed a Weak Response of Gingival Fibroblasts Exposed to Hyaluronic Acid.
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- RNA-Seq of Gingival Fibroblasts Grown on Collagen Membranes and Hyaluronic Acid.Journal of functional biomaterials · 2026Article
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Abstract
Hyaluronic acid was proposed to support soft tissue recession surgery and guided tissue regeneration. The molecular mechanisms through which hyaluronic acid modulates the response of connective tissue cells remain elusive. To elucidate the impact of hyaluronic acid on the connective tissue cells, we used bulk RNA sequencing to determine the changes in the genetic signature of gingival fibroblasts exposed to 1.6% cross-linked hyaluronic acid and 0.2% natural hyaluronic acid. Transcriptome-wide changes were modest. Even when implementing a minimum of 1.5 log2 fold-change and a significance threshold of 1.0 -log10, only a dozenth of genes were differentially expressed. Upregulated genes were PLK3, SLC16A6, IL6, HBEGF, DGKE, DUSP4, PTGS2, FOXC2, ATAD2B, NFATC2, and downregulated genes were MMP24 and PLXNA2. RT-PCR analysis supported the impact of hyaluronic acid on increasing the expression of a selected gene panel. The findings from bulk RNA sequencing suggest that gingival fibroblasts experience weak changes in their transcriptome when exposed to hyaluronic acid.
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