组织工程生物支架材料

组织工程支架材料表面的微观和亚微观结构对细胞的黏附与生长有很重要的影响,纳米结构材料的应用为该结构展现了较广阔的前景。另外,组织工程支架材料的表面修饰及孔径调控对生物材料的改进有很重要的作用。介绍了生物材料的基本要求和分类,纳米结构材料在组织工程中的应用及生物材料表面修饰,以及以泡沫支架为例介绍材料孔径调控。     

成纤维细胞在壳聚糖/PHEA水凝胶膜上的粘附与生长行为

水凝胶是一类广泛溶涨于水 ,呈三维网状结构的聚合物具有很高的生物相容性 ,广泛地用于生物材料 ,如眼球的晶状体、人造脏器以及人造皮肤等。高含水量的水凝胶不利于细胞粘附 ,研究能使细胞粘附并生长的水凝胶是开发其在组织工程材料领域应用的关键 ,细胞易于粘附的水凝胶可用于细胞培养基材和组织工程移植支架材料。一般来说 ,由于细胞表面带有负电荷 ,带正电荷的基材表面 (如 ,多熔素 (Ｐｏｌｙｌ ｙｓｉｎｅ) )有利于细胞粘附 ,而带有酸性或中性基团的材料不利于细胞粘附[1 ] ,而且带高负电荷密度的基材会导致细胞新陈代谢的紊乱并抑制细…     

BMSCs在PLGA-[ASP-PEG]基质材料表面粘附及增殖的研究

目的：探讨大鼠骨髓间充质干细胞BMSCs在聚丙交酯/乙交酯/天冬氨酸-聚乙二醇三嵌段多元共聚物 PLGA-[ASP-PEG]表面粘附、增殖的情况,为组织工程学体外诱导种子细胞生长提供新的生物材料。方法：在PLGA支架材料中引入聚乙二醇（PEG）和含有多个功能位点的天冬氨酸（ASP）,制成PLGA-[ASP-PEG]高分子支架材料。 将PLGA-[ASP-PEG]支架材料与BMSCs复合培养,以未改性的PLGA支架材料作对照,通过沉淀法、MTT法和考马斯亮蓝法分别检测BMSCs的粘附和增殖变化;扫描电镜观察黏附细胞的形态。结果 BMSCs在PLGA-[ASP-PEG]材料表面帖壁生长,细胞数目明显多于单纯PLGA组。细胞粘附率检测显示：改性后的PLGA-[ASP-PEG]表面BMSCs的粘附性能和增殖能力明显高于对照组,P＜0.05。MTT比色试验,BMSCs在三嵌段材料上培养20d后,吸光值A=1.336,约为对照组0.780的两倍。细胞内蛋白总量间接反映细胞黏附及增殖情况。培养12d时,在PLGA-[ASP-PEG]材料组细胞的蛋白含量为66.44μg/孔,单纯PLGA组为41.23μg/孔,间接说明了三嵌段材料生物相容性好,细胞黏附力强的特点。结论PLGA-[ASP-PEG]能促进组织工程种子细胞在骨基质材料表面的黏附、增殖并能较好地保持细胞的形态。     

生物材料表面蛋白质微图形对人体软骨细胞形态及蛋白表达的影响

主要研究采用微接触印刷术在生物材料表面制备的细胞外基质蛋白微图形对人体软骨细胞粘附、铺展以及蛋白质表达等细胞行为的影响．研究结果表明,蛋白质微图形表面对细胞的粘附、铺展、排列以及细胞蛋白质表达具有明显的影响．细胞优先粘附在微图形蛋白区域,微图形形状以及尺度明显影响细胞的粘附形态以及铺展程度,同时也影响细胞生长过程中的Ⅱ型与Ⅵ型胶原蛋白的表达,细胞的铺展行为与细胞的蛋白质表达具有一定的正相关性,铺展较好的细胞表现出更好的Ⅱ型与Ⅵ型胶原蛋白表达．结果表明,通过在材料表面制备细胞外基质蛋白微图形可以有效调控人体软骨细胞的生长行为与功能．     

材料表面化学刺激对纤连蛋白构象及细胞的影响

生物材料的表面化学性质通过改变吸附蛋白的构象,影响细胞粘附铺展,产生不同的细胞行为.采用金-硫自组装单分子层技术(alkanethiol self-assembled monolayers,SAMs)构建了不同化学基团(-NH2、-COOH、-OH和-CH3)修饰的基底材料表面.运用X射线光能质谱(XPS)和接触角仪表...     

血管新生及丝蛋白材料血管化过程

基于医用生物材料开发及组织工程中血管化问题的重要性,本文就与生物材料血管化紧密相关的血管发生和血管新生有关研究做一综述,分析了芽式和套迭式血管新生的模式及机制,特别是对丝蛋白材料的血管化过程进行了分析与探讨.通过深入探讨血管新生的模式和机制,进而阐明丝蛋白材料中毛细血管生长与生物材料微结构之间的关系,有助于设计出适合于细胞黏附、组织生长、血管化顺利进行的生物材料,促进生物材料的临床应用及组织工程血管化研究的深化.     

不同植入材料对表皮葡萄球菌和结核杆菌粘附和生物膜形成的影响

目的:探讨表皮葡萄球菌和结核杆菌在不同生物材料表面粘附性和生物膜形成能力的差异,为临床骨科材料的选择提供理论参考。方法:采用常规方法进行细菌分离和菌种鉴定。粘附能力检测采用菌落计数法,生物膜形成能力检测采用96孔板结晶紫染色法。结果:结核杆菌和表皮葡萄球菌在骨组织均有最强的粘附和生物膜形成能力,表皮葡萄球菌在三种材料上的粘附和生物膜形成能力均高于结核杆菌,表皮葡萄球菌和结核杆菌在铁合金和不锈钢粗糙表面上的粘附和生物膜形成能力均显著高于其光滑表面(P0.05)。结论:表皮葡萄球菌和结核杆菌在不同生物材料上具有不同的粘附和生物膜形成能力,不同种属细菌在不同材料的粘附和生物膜形成能力为临床骨科生物材料的选择提供了理论依据。     

材料表面特征对生物膜形成的影响及其应用

生物膜是微生物细胞粘附于材料表面的群体性生长方式。在实践应用中,有目的地调控微生物在材料表面的成膜进程具有重要意义。本文概述了生物膜在材料表面的形成机制及其影响因素,综述了材料表面的电荷特征、亲疏水性、形貌模式和功能性化学修饰等物化特性对细胞粘附和生物膜形成的影响,并介绍了目前在不同实际应用场景中抑制成膜和促进成膜材料的研发现状。     

肌腱组织工程支架与种子细胞研究进展

目的:综述肌腱组织工程支架材料、细胞来源、制备技术及体外构建的研究进展.方法:查阅近期肌腱组织工程研究的相关文献,对组织工程肌腱支架的材料来源、制备技术,复合细胞种类,体外构建力学刺激等进行分析、归纳.结果:肌腱组织工程支架材料有天然材料、人工合成材料及复合材料等;制备技术包括静电纺丝和编织法等;其中支架材料的表面修饰是组织工程化肌腱构建的重要环节.与肌腱材料进行复合的种子细胞有肌腱细胞、骨髓间充质干细胞及成纤维细胞等.结论:复合材料是近年肌腱组织工程支架材料研究的重点,静电纺丝技术是一种具有潜力的支架制备技术,支架材料的表面修饰可促进细胞在支架上的黏附及肌腱的形成,种子细胞的研究仍是肌腱组织工程发展的瓶颈,周期性张力的存在为组织工程化肌腱的形成创造了条件.     

促细胞黏附生长的自组装肽水凝胶

随着细胞与组织工程的迅猛发展,能够促进细胞黏附、生长和分化的生物材料基质支架的研究日益重要。具有生物相容性且含水量超过99％的自组装肽水凝胶因其很好地符合理想的生物材料基质支架标准而备受重视。这类自我互补的两亲寡肽含50％的带电残基,并且以交替的离子亲水性和不带电的氨基酸残基周期性重复为特征;在其寡肽的氨基末端可用直接固相合成法修饰几个短序列生物活性模体进行功能化,用以促进不同细胞的黏附生长和靶向定位。现对自组装肽水凝胶的结构特征、自组装机制、对细胞黏附生长的影响以及未来自组装肽生物材料设计的目标进行综述．     

Rho-associated kinase (ROCK) inhibition reverses low cell activity on hydrophobic surfaces

Hydrophobic polymers do not offer an adequate scaffold surface for cells to attach, migrate, proliferate, and differentiate. Thus, hydrophobic scaffolds for tissue engineering have traditionally been physicochemically modified to enhance cellular activity. However, modifying the surface by chemical or physical treatment requires supplementary engineering procedures. In the present study, regulation of a cell signal transduction pathway reversed the low cellular activity on a hydrophobic surface without surface modification. Inhibition of Rho-associated kinase (ROCK) by Y-27632 markedly enhanced adhesion, migration, and proliferation of osteoblastic cells cultured on a hydrophobic polystyrene surface. ROCK inhibition regulated cell-cycle-related molecules on the hydrophobic surface. This inhibition also decreased expression of the inhibitors of cyclin-dependent kinases such as p21^cip1 and p27^kip1 and increased expression of cyclin A and D. These results indicate that defective cellular activity on the hydrophobic surface can be reversed by the control of a cell signal transduction pathway without physicochemical surface modification.     

Biomaterial biotechnology using self-assembled lipid microstructures

Lipids are a class of molecules which self-assemble into a variety of phase-dependent morphologies. We have employed self-assembled lipid microstructures in the development of a number of biomedical material applications. The blood substitute, liposome encapsulated hemoglobin, is being investigated for the in vivo delivery of hemoglobil without many of the inherent tmxicities associated the delivery of free hemoglobin. This investigation is currently focused on demonstrations of efficacy in stressed animal models and on the safety of adminstering this material in models of sepsis. The synthetic modification of phospholipids to include photopolymerizable moieties such as diacetylenes has resulted in the spontaneous self-assembly of a hollow micpocylinder which we are investigating fop the controlled release of growth factors in soft tissue regeneration. Self-assembled mmnolayeps are also being explored for the ability to surface modify biomaterials for improved cell adhesion. Photolithographic techniques have been combined with monolayep deposition to facbriaate coplanar pattern of cell adhesion ald inhibiting moieties. This results in the ability to spatially control the adhesion of cells to biomaterial surface. These cell patterns can form the basis for understanding two-and theree-dimensional cellular events on the biomaterial surface and for the fabrication of improved cell-based biocompatible surfaae. The spmntaneous self-assembly of lipids to form structures of biotechnological interest presents a unique opportunity to exploit this class of molecules for biomaterial applications.     

Modulation of cell adhesion, proliferation and differentiation on materials designed for body implants

The interaction of cells and tissues with artificial materials designed for applications in biotechnologies and in medicine is governed by the physical and chemical properties of the material surface. There is optimal cell adhesion to moderately hydrophilic and positively charged substrates, due to the adsorption of cell adhesion-mediating molecules (e.g. vitronectin, fibronectin) in an advantageous geometrical conformation, which makes specific sites on these molecules (e.g. specific amino acid sequences) accessible to cell adhesion receptors (e.g. integrins). Highly hydrophilic surfaces prevent the adsorption of proteins, or these molecules are bound very weakly. On highly hydrophobic materials, however, proteins are adsorbed in rigid and denatured forms, hampering cell adhesion. The wettability of the material surface, particularly in synthetic polymers, can be effectively regulated by physical treatments, e.g. by irradiation with ions, plasma or UV light. The irradiation-activated material surface can be functionalized by various biomolecules and nanoparticles, and this further enhances its attractiveness for cells and its effectiveness in regulating cell functions. Another important factor for cell-material interaction is surface roughness and surface topography. Nanostructured substrates (i.e. substrates with irregularities smaller than 100nm), are generally considered to be beneficial for cell adhesion and growth, while microstructured substrates behave more controversially (e.g. they can hamper cell spreading and proliferation but they enhance cell differentiation, particularly in osteogenic cells). A factor which has been relatively less investigated, but which is essential for cell-material interaction, is material deformability. Highly soft and deformable substrates cannot resist the tractional forces generated by cells during cell adhesion, and cells are not able to attach, spread and survive on such materials. Local variation in the physical and chemical properties of the material surface can be advantageously used for constructing patterned surfaces. Micropatterned surfaces enable regionally selective cell adhesion and directed growth, which can be utilized in tissue engineering, in constructing microarrays and in biosensorics. Nanopatterned surfaces are an effective tool for manipulating the type, number, spacing and distribution of ligands for cell adhesion receptors on the material surface. As a consequence, these surfaces are able to control the size, shape, distribution and maturity of focal adhesion plaques on cells, and thus cell adhesion, proliferation, differentiation and other cell functions.     

Cell adhesion on artificial materials for tissue engineering

Advanced interdisciplinary scientific field of tissue engineering has been developed to meet increasing demand for safe, functional and easy available substitutes of irreversibly damaged tissues and organs. First biomaterials were constructed as "two-dimensional" (allowing cell adhesion only on their surface), and durable (non-biodegradable). In contrast, biomaterials of new generation are characterized by so-called three dimensional porous or scaffold-like architecture promoting attachment, growth and differentiation of cells inside the material, accompanied by its gradual removal and replacement with regenerated fully functional tissue. In order to control these processes, these materials are endowed with a defined spectrum of bioactive molecules, such as ligands for adhesion receptors on cells, functional parts of natural growth factors, hormones and enzymes or synthetic regulators of cell behavior, incorporated in defined concentrations and spatial distribution against a bioinert background resistant to uncontrolled protein adsorption and cell adhesion.     

Tissue scaffold surface patterning for clinical applications

Patterned scaffold surfaces provide a platform for highly defined cellular interactions, and have recently taken precedence in tissue engineering. Despite advances in patterning techniques and improved tissue growth, no clinical studies have been conducted for implantation of patterned biomaterials. Four major clinical application fields where patterned materials hold great promise are antimicrobial surfaces, cardiac constructs, neurite outgrowth, and stem cell differentiation. Specific examples include applications of patterned materials to (i) counter infection by antibiotic resistant bacteria, (ii) establish proper alignment and contractile force of regrown cardiac cells for repairing tissue damaged by cardiac infarction, (iii) increase neurite outgrowth for central nervous system wound repair, and (iv) host differentiated stem cells while preventing reversion to a pluripotent state. Moreover, patterned materials offer unique advantages for artificial implants which other constructs cannot. For example, by inducing selective cell adhesion using topographical cues, patterned surfaces present cellular orientation signals that lead to functional tissue architectures. Mechanical stimuli such as modulus, tension, and material roughness are known to influence tissue growth, as are chemical stimuli for cell adhesion. Scaffold surface patterns allow for control of these mechanical and chemical factors. This review identifies research advances in scaffold surface patterning, in light of pressing clinical needs requiring organization of cellular interactions.     

Approaches in extracellular matrix engineering for determination of adhesion molecule mediated single cell function

The native extracellular matrix (ECM) and the cells that comprise human tissues are together engaged in a complex relationship; cells alter the composition and structure of the ECM to regulate the material and biologic properties of the surrounding environment while the composition and structure of the ECM modulates cellular processes that maintain healthy tissue and repair diseased tissue. This reciprocal relationship occurs via cell adhesion molecules (CAMs) such as integrins, selectins, cadherins and IgSF adhesion molecules. To study these cell-ECM interactions, researchers use two-dimensional substrates or three-dimensional matrices composed of native proteins or bioactive peptide sequences to study single cell function. While two-dimensional substrates provide valuable information about cell-ECM interactions, three-dimensional matrices more closely mimic the native ECM; cells cultured in three-dimensional matrices have demonstrated greater cell movement and increased integrin expression when compared to cells cultured on two-dimensional substrates. In this article we review a number of cellular processes (adhesion, motility, phagocytosis, differentiation and survival) and examine the cell adhesion molecules and ECM proteins (or bioactive peptide sequences) that mediate cell functionality.     

Cell adhesion: More than just glue (Review)

The ability of cells to interact with each other and their surroundings in a co-ordinated manner depends on multiple adhesive interactions between neighbouring cells and their extracellular environment. These adhesive interactions are mediated by a family of cell surface proteins, termed cell adhesion molecules. Fortunately these adhesion molecules fall into distinct families with adhesive interactions varying in strength from strong binding involved in the maintenance of tissue architecture to more transient, less avid, dynamic interactions observed in leukocyte biology. Adhesion molecules are extremely versatile cell surface receptors which not only stick cells together but provide biochemical and physical signals that regulate a range of diverse functions, such as cell proliferation, gene expression, differentiation, apoptosis and migration. In addition, like many other cell surface molecules, they have been usurped as portals of entry for pathogens, including prions. How the mechanical and chemical messages generated from adhesion molecules are integrated with other signalling pathways (such as receptor tyrosine kinases and phosphatases) and the role that aberrant cell adhesion plays in developmental defects and disease pathology are currently very active areas of research. This review focuses on the biochemical features that define whether a cell surface molecule can act as an adhesion molecule, and discusses five specific examples of how cell adhesion molecules function as more than just 'sticky’ receptors. The discussion is confined to the signalling events mediated by members of the integrin, cadherin and immunoglobulin gene superfamilies. It is suggested that, by controlling the membrane organization of signalling receptors, by imposing spatial organization, and by regulating the local concentration of cytosolic adapter proteins, intercellular and cell-matrix adhesion is more than just glue holding cells together. Rather dynamic ‘conversations’ and the formation of multi-protein complexes between adhesion molecules, growth factor receptors and matrix macromolecules can now provide a molecular explanation for the long-observed but poorly understood requirement for a number of seemingly distinct cell surface molecules to be engaged for efficient cell function to occur.     

Integrins and other cell adhesion molecules

Cell-cell and cell-substratum interactions are mediated through several different families of receptors. In addition to targeting cell adhesion to specific extracellular matrix proteins and ligands on adjacent cells, these receptors influence many diverse processes including cellular growth, differentiation, junction formation, and polarity. Several families of adhesion receptors have been identified. These include: 1) the integrins, heterodimeric molecules that function both as cell-substratum and cell-cell adhesion receptors; 2) the adhesion molecules of the immunoglobulin superfamily, which are involved in cell-cell adhesion and especially important during embryo-genesis, wound healing, and the inflammatory response; 3) the cadherins, developmentally regulated, calcium-dependent homophilic cell-cell adhesion proteins; 4) the LEC-CAMs, cell adhesion molecules with lectin-like domains that mediate white blood cell/endothelial cell adhesion; and 5) homing receptors that target lymphocytes to specific lymphoid tissue. In this review we summarize recent data describing the structure and function of some of these cell adhesion molecules (with special emphasis on the integrin family) and discuss the possible role of these molecules in development, inflammation, wound healing, coagulation, and tumor metastasis.     

Cell attachment and long-term growth on derivatizable polyacrylamide surfaces

Important cellular characteristics, including selective adhesion, growth rate, motility, and differentiation, are controlled, in part, by signals received at the cell surface. The molecular mechanisms for the cell surface control of these cell behaviors are largely unknown. In order to probe the role of specific extracellular molecules in controlling cell function, we report the development of synthetic surfaces which generally support the long-term growth of cells yet can be readily derivatized with a wide variety of molecules of biological interest. Polyacrylamide gels containing a gradient of active ester groups were prepared and then the esters were displaced with ligands to generate a gradient of carboxylic acid, tertiary amine, or hydroxyl groups. When untransformed mouse fibroblasts (BALB/3T3) were seeded on the various surfaces, they attached and grew only on those derivatized with carboxylic acids or hydroxyl groups within narrow concentration ranges. Cell growth rate, density, and morphology on polyacrylamide gels containing the optimal concentration of carboxylic acid groups (approximately 30 mumol/ml) were comparable to those on tissue culture plastic, whereas growth on hydroxyl group-derivatized gels was less extensive. In contrast, short-term (90-min) adhesion to hydroxyl group-derivatized gels was greater than that to carboxylic acid-derivatized gels. Both short-term adhesion and long-term growth required serum. Growth-supportive polyacrylamide gels were readily derivatized with molecules of biological interest. The techniques reported here are applicable to other types of cell in culture since the nature and concentration of substratum functional groups can be easily varied and tested for support of long-term cell growth.     

Cell adhesion: more than just glue (review)

The ability of cells to interact with each other and their surroundings in a co-ordinated manner depends on multiple adhesive interactions between neighbouring cells and their extracellular environment. These adhesive interactions are mediated by a family of cell surface proteins, termed cell adhesion molecules. Fortunately these adhesion molecules fall into distinct families with adhesive interactions varying in strength from strong binding involved in the maintenance of tissue architecture to more transient, less avid, dynamic interactions observed in leukocyte biology. Adhesion molecules are extremely versatile cell surface receptors which not only stick cells together but provide biochemical and physical signals that regulate a range of diverse functions, such as cell proliferation, gene expression, differentiation, apoptosis and migration. In addition, like many other cell surface molecules, they have been usurped as portals of entry for pathogens, including prions. How the mechanical and chemical messages generated from adhesion molecules are integrated with other signalling pathways (such as receptor tyrosine kinases and phosphatases) and the role that aberrant cell adhesion plays in developmental defects and disease pathology are currently very active areas of research. This review focuses on the biochemical features that define whether a cell surface molecule can act as an adhesion molecule, and discusses five specific examples of how cell adhesion molecules function as more than just 'sticky' receptors. The discussion is confined to the signalling events mediated by members of the integrin, cadherin and immunoglobulin gene superfamilies. It is suggested that, by controlling the membrane organization of signalling receptors, by imposing spatial organization, and by regulating the local concentration of cytosolic adapter proteins, intercellular and cell-matrix adhesion is more than just glue holding cells together. Rather dynamic 'conversations' and the formation of multi-protein complexes between adhesion molecules, growth factor receptors and matrix macromolecules can now provide a molecular explanation for the long-observed but poorly understood requirement for a number of seemingly distinct cell surface molecules to be engaged for efficient cell function to occur.