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Bhattacharjee A, Savargaonkar AV, Tahir M, Sionkowska A, Popat KC. Surface modification strategies for improved hemocompatibility of polymeric materials: a comprehensive review. RSC Adv 2024; 14:7440-7458. [PMID: 38433935 PMCID: PMC10906639 DOI: 10.1039/d3ra08738g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2023] [Accepted: 02/22/2024] [Indexed: 03/05/2024] Open
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Polymeric biomaterials are a widely used class of materials due to their versatile properties. However, as with all other types of materials used for biomaterials, polymers also have to interact with blood. When blood comes into contact with any foreign body, it initiates a cascade which leads to platelet activation and blood coagulation. The implant surface also has to encounter a thromboinflammatory response which makes the implant integrity vulnerable, this leads to blood coagulation on the implant and obstructs it from performing its function. Hence, the surface plays a pivotal role in the design and application of biomaterials. In particular, the surface properties of biomaterials are responsible for biocompatibility with biological systems and hemocompatibility. This review provides a report on recent advances in the field of surface modification approaches for improved hemocompatibility. We focus on the surface properties of polysaccharides, proteins, and synthetic polymers. The blood coagulation cascade has been discussed and blood - material surface interactions have also been explained. The interactions of blood proteins and cells with polymeric material surfaces have been discussed. Moreover, the benefits as well as drawbacks of blood coagulation on the implant surface for wound healing purposes have also been studied. Surface modifications implemented by other researchers to enhance as well as prevent blood coagulation have also been analyzed.
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- Abhishek Bhattacharjee
- School of Advanced Material Discovery, Colorado State University Fort Collins CO 80523 USA
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- Department of Biomaterials and Cosmetic Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Nicolaus Copernicus University Gagarina 7 87-100 Torun Poland
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- Department of Biomaterials and Cosmetic Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Nicolaus Copernicus University Gagarina 7 87-100 Torun Poland
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- School of Advanced Material Discovery, Colorado State University Fort Collins CO 80523 USA
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Colorado State University Fort Collins CO 80523 USA
- Department of Bioengineering, George Mason University Fairfax VA 22030 USA
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Ibrahim MA, Masoud HMM. Purification and characterization of thrombin from camel plasma: interaction with camel tick salivary gland thrombin inhibitor. J Genet Eng Biotechnol 2023; 21:7. [PMID: 36689046 PMCID: PMC9871101 DOI: 10.1186/s43141-023-00464-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2022] [Accepted: 01/11/2023] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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BACKGROUND Thrombin is the most important enzyme in the hemostatic process by permitting rapid and localized coagulation in case of tissue damage. Camel thrombin is the natural and proper target enzyme for the previously purified camel tick salivary gland thrombin inhibitor. RESULTS In this study, the camel thrombin was purified homogenously in a single affinity chromatographic step on the heparin-agarose affinity column with a specific activity of 3242 NIH units/mg proteins. On SDS-PAGE, the purified camel thrombin contained two forms, 37 kDa α-thrombin and 28 kDa β-thrombin, and the camel prothrombin was visualized as 72 kDa. The camel thrombin Km value was found out as 60 µM of N-(p-Tosyl)-Gly-Pro-Arg-p-nitroanilide acetate and displayed its optimum activity at pH 8.3. The PMSF was the most potent inhibitor of camel thrombin. Camel tick salivary gland thrombin inhibitor has two binding sites on camel thrombin and inhibited it competitively with Ki value of 0.45 µM. CONCLUSIONS The purified camel thrombin was found to be more susceptible toward the camel tick salivary gland thrombin inhibitor than bovine thrombin.
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- Mahmoud A. Ibrahim
- grid.419725.c0000 0001 2151 8157Molecular Biology Department, National Research Centre, Dokki, Giza, Egypt ,grid.419725.c0000 0001 2151 8157Proteome Research Laboratory, Central Laboratories Network and Centers of Excellence, National Research Centre, El-Tahrir St, Dokki, Giza, Egypt
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- grid.419725.c0000 0001 2151 8157Molecular Biology Department, National Research Centre, Dokki, Giza, Egypt ,grid.419725.c0000 0001 2151 8157Proteome Research Laboratory, Central Laboratories Network and Centers of Excellence, National Research Centre, El-Tahrir St, Dokki, Giza, Egypt
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Insuasti‐Cruz E, Suárez‐Jaramillo V, Mena Urresta KA, Pila‐Varela KO, Fiallos‐Ayala X, Dahoumane SA, Alexis F. Natural Biomaterials from Biodiversity for Healthcare Applications. Adv Healthc Mater 2022; 11:e2101389. [PMID: 34643331 DOI: 10.1002/adhm.202101389] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2021] [Revised: 09/20/2021] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Natural biomaterials originating during the growth cycles of all living organisms have been used for many applications. They span from bioinert to bioactive materials including bioinspired ones. As they exhibit an increasing degree of sophistication, natural biomaterials have proven suitable to address the needs of the healthcare sector. Here the different natural healthcare biomaterials, their biodiversity sources, properties, and promising healthcare applications are reviewed. The variability of their properties as a result of considered species and their habitat is also discussed. Finally, some limitations of natural biomaterials are discussed and possible future developments are provided as more natural biomaterials are yet to be discovered and studied.
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- Erick Insuasti‐Cruz
- School of Biological Sciences & Engineering Yachay Tech University Urcuquí 100119 Ecuador
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- School of Biological Sciences & Engineering Yachay Tech University Urcuquí 100119 Ecuador
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- School of Biological Sciences & Engineering Yachay Tech University Urcuquí 100119 Ecuador
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- Department of Chemical Engineering Polytech Montreal Montreal Quebec H3C 3A7 Canada
- Center for Advances in Water and Air Quality (CAWAQ) Lamar University Beaumont TX 77710 USA
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- School of Biological Sciences & Engineering Yachay Tech University Urcuquí 100119 Ecuador
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Meco E, Lampe KJ. Impact of Elastin-like Protein Temperature Transition on PEG-ELP Hybrid Hydrogel Properties. Biomacromolecules 2019; 20:1914-1925. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.9b00113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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- Edi Meco
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Chemical Eng., Office 117, University of Virginia, 102 Engineer’s Way, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Chemical Eng., Office 117, University of Virginia, 102 Engineer’s Way, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, United States
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Laidmäe I, Ērglis K, Cēbers A, Janmey PA, Uibo R. Salmon fibrinogen and chitosan scaffold for tissue engineering: in vitro and in vivo evaluation. JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE. MATERIALS IN MEDICINE 2018; 29:182. [PMID: 30506370 PMCID: PMC6267118 DOI: 10.1007/s10856-018-6192-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2018] [Accepted: 11/16/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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3D fibrous scaffolds have received much recent attention in regenerative medicine. Use of fibrous scaffolds has shown promising results in tissue engineering and wound healing. Here we report the development and properties of a novel fibrous scaffold that is useful for promoting wound healing. A scaffold made of salmon fibrinogen and chitosan is produced by electrospinning, resulting in a biocompatible material mimicking the structure of the native extracellular matrix (ECM) with suitable biochemical and mechanical properties. The scaffold is produced without the need for enzymes, in particular thrombin, but is fully compatible with their addition if needed. Human dermal fibroblasts cultured on this scaffold showed progressive proliferation for 14 days. Split-thickness experimental skin wounds treated and untreated were compared in a 10-day follow-up period. Wound healing was more effective using the fibrinogen-chitosan scaffold than in untreated wounds. This scaffold could be applicable in various medical purposes including surgery, tissue regeneration, burns, traumatic injuries, and 3D cell culture platforms.
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- Ivo Laidmäe
- Department of Immunology, Institute of Biomedicine and Translational Medicine, University of Tartu, 50411, Tartu, Estonia.
- Institute of Pharmacy, University of Tartu, 50411, Tartu, Estonia.
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- Faculty of Physics, Mathematics and Optometry, University of Latvia, Riga, LV-1002, Latvia
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- Faculty of Physics, Mathematics and Optometry, University of Latvia, Riga, LV-1002, Latvia
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- Institute for Medicine and Engineering and Center for Engineering Mechanobiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Department of Immunology, Institute of Biomedicine and Translational Medicine, University of Tartu, 50411, Tartu, Estonia
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Hickman DA, Pawlowski CL, Sekhon UDS, Marks J, Gupta AS. Biomaterials and Advanced Technologies for Hemostatic Management of Bleeding. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2018; 30:10.1002/adma.201700859. [PMID: 29164804 PMCID: PMC5831165 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201700859] [Citation(s) in RCA: 251] [Impact Index Per Article: 41.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2017] [Revised: 06/18/2017] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Bleeding complications arising from trauma, surgery, and as congenital, disease-associated, or drug-induced blood disorders can cause significant morbidities and mortalities in civilian and military populations. Therefore, stoppage of bleeding (hemostasis) is of paramount clinical significance in prophylactic, surgical, and emergency scenarios. For externally accessible injuries, a variety of natural and synthetic biomaterials have undergone robust research, leading to hemostatic technologies including glues, bandages, tamponades, tourniquets, dressings, and procoagulant powders. In contrast, treatment of internal noncompressible hemorrhage still heavily depends on transfusion of whole blood or blood's hemostatic components (platelets, fibrinogen, and coagulation factors). Transfusion of platelets poses significant challenges of limited availability, high cost, contamination risks, short shelf-life, low portability, performance variability, and immunological side effects, while use of fibrinogen or coagulation factors provides only partial mechanisms for hemostasis. With such considerations, significant interdisciplinary research endeavors have been focused on developing materials and technologies that can be manufactured conveniently, sterilized to minimize contamination and enhance shelf-life, and administered intravenously to mimic, leverage, and amplify physiological hemostatic mechanisms. Here, a comprehensive review regarding the various topical, intracavitary, and intravenous hemostatic technologies in terms of materials, mechanisms, and state-of-art is provided, and challenges and opportunities to help advancement of the field are discussed.
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- DaShawn A Hickman
- Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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Bhatnagar D, Bushman JS, Murthy NS, Merolli A, Kaplan HM, Kohn J. Fibrin glue as a stabilization strategy in peripheral nerve repair when using porous nerve guidance conduits. JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE. MATERIALS IN MEDICINE 2017; 28:79. [PMID: 28389905 PMCID: PMC5384961 DOI: 10.1007/s10856-017-5889-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2017] [Accepted: 03/25/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Porous conduits provide a protected pathway for nerve regeneration, while still allowing exchange of nutrients and wastes. However, pore sizes >30 µm may permit fibrous tissue infiltration into the conduit, which may impede axonal regeneration. Coating the conduit with Fibrin Glue (FG) is one option for controlling the conduit's porosity. FG is extensively used in clinical peripheral nerve repair, as a tissue sealant, filler and drug-delivery matrix. Here, we compared the performance of FG to an alternative, hyaluronic acid (HA) as a coating for porous conduits, using uncoated porous conduits and reverse autografts as control groups. The uncoated conduit walls had pores with a diameter of 60 to 70 µm that were uniformly covered by either FG or HA coatings. In vitro, FG coatings degraded twice as fast as HA coatings. In vivo studies in a 1 cm rat sciatic nerve model showed FG coating resulted in poor axonal density (993 ± 854 #/mm2), negligible fascicular area (0.03 ± 0.04 mm2), minimal percent wet muscle mass recovery (16 ± 1 in gastrocnemius and 15 ± 5 in tibialis anterior) and G-ratio (0.73 ± 0.01). Histology of FG-coated conduits showed excessive fibrous tissue infiltration inside the lumen, and fibrin capsule formation around the conduit. Although FG has been shown to promote nerve regeneration in non-porous conduits, we found that as a coating for porous conduits in vivo, FG encourages scar tissue infiltration that impedes nerve regeneration. This is a significant finding considering the widespread use of FG in peripheral nerve repair.
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- Divya Bhatnagar
- New Jersey Center for Biomaterials, Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey, 145 Bevier Road, Piscataway, NJ, 08854, USA
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- New Jersey Center for Biomaterials, Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey, 145 Bevier Road, Piscataway, NJ, 08854, USA
- School of Pharmacy, University of Wyoming, 1000 E University Ave Dept. 3375, Laramie, WY, 82071, USA
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- New Jersey Center for Biomaterials, Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey, 145 Bevier Road, Piscataway, NJ, 08854, USA
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- New Jersey Center for Biomaterials, Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey, 145 Bevier Road, Piscataway, NJ, 08854, USA
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- New Jersey Center for Biomaterials, Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey, 145 Bevier Road, Piscataway, NJ, 08854, USA
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- New Jersey Center for Biomaterials, Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey, 145 Bevier Road, Piscataway, NJ, 08854, USA.
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Arulmoli J, Wright HJ, Phan DTT, Sheth U, Que RA, Botten GA, Keating M, Botvinick EL, Pathak MM, Zarembinski TI, Yanni DS, Razorenova OV, Hughes CCW, Flanagan LA. Combination scaffolds of salmon fibrin, hyaluronic acid, and laminin for human neural stem cell and vascular tissue engineering. Acta Biomater 2016; 43:122-138. [PMID: 27475528 PMCID: PMC5386322 DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2016.07.043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2016] [Revised: 06/29/2016] [Accepted: 07/26/2016] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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UNLABELLED Human neural stem/progenitor cells (hNSPCs) are good candidates for treating central nervous system (CNS) trauma since they secrete beneficial trophic factors and differentiate into mature CNS cells; however, many cells die after transplantation. This cell death can be ameliorated by inclusion of a biomaterial scaffold, making identification of optimal scaffolds for hNSPCs a critical research focus. We investigated the properties of fibrin-based scaffolds and their effects on hNSPCs and found that fibrin generated from salmon fibrinogen and thrombin stimulates greater hNSPC proliferation than mammalian fibrin. Fibrin scaffolds degrade over the course of a few days in vivo, so we sought to develop a novel scaffold that would retain the beneficial properties of fibrin but degrade more slowly to provide longer support for hNSPCs. We found combination scaffolds of salmon fibrin with interpenetrating networks (IPNs) of hyaluronic acid (HA) with and without laminin polymerize more effectively than fibrin alone and generate compliant hydrogels matching the physical properties of brain tissue. Furthermore, combination scaffolds support hNSPC proliferation and differentiation while significantly attenuating the cell-mediated degradation seen with fibrin alone. HNSPCs express two fibrinogen-binding integrins, αVβ1 and α5β1, and several laminin binding integrins (α7β1, α6β1, α3β1) that can mediate interaction with the scaffold. Lastly, to test the ability of scaffolds to support vascularization, we analyzed human cord blood-derived endothelial cells alone and in co-culture with hNSPCs and found enhanced vessel formation and complexity in co-cultures within combination scaffolds. Overall, combination scaffolds of fibrin, HA, and laminin are excellent biomaterials for hNSPCs. STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Interest has increased recently in the development of biomaterials as neural stem cell transplantation scaffolds to treat central nervous system (CNS) injury since scaffolds improve survival and integration of transplanted cells. We report here on a novel combination scaffold composed of fibrin, hyaluronic acid, and laminin to support human neural stem/progenitor cell (hNSPC) function. This combined biomaterial scaffold has appropriate physical properties for hNSPCs and the CNS, supports hNSPC proliferation and differentiation, and attenuates rapid cell-mediated scaffold degradation. The hNSPCs and scaffold components synergistically encourage new vessel formation from human endothelial cells. This work marks the first report of a combination scaffold supporting human neural and vascular cells to encourage vasculogenesis, and sets a benchmark for biomaterials to treat CNS injury.
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- Janahan Arulmoli
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA; Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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- Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA; Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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- Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA; The Edwards Lifesciences Center for Advanced Cardiovascular Technology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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- Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA; Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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- Disc Comfort, Inc., 351 Hospital Road, Suite 202, Newport Beach, CA 92663, USA
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- Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA; Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA; Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA; The Edwards Lifesciences Center for Advanced Cardiovascular Technology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA; Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA; Department of Neurology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.
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Kocmarek AL, Ferguson MM, Danzmann RG. Co-localization of growth QTL with differentially expressed candidate genes in rainbow trout. Genome 2015; 58:393-403. [PMID: 26360524 DOI: 10.1139/gen-2015-0047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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We tested whether genes differentially expressed between large and small rainbow trout co-localized with familial QTL regions for body size. Eleven chromosomes, known from previous work to house QTL for weight and length in rainbow trout, were examined for QTL in half-sibling families produced in September (1 XY male and 1 XX neomale) and December (1 XY male). In previous studies, we identified 108 candidate genes for growth expressed in the liver and white muscle in a subset of the fish used in this study. These gene sequences were BLASTN aligned against the rainbow trout and stickleback genomes to determine their location (rainbow trout) and inferred location based on synteny with the stickleback genome. Across the progeny of all three males used in the study, 63.9% of the genes with differential expression appear to co-localize with the QTL regions on 6 of the 11 chromosomes tested in these males. Genes that co-localized with QTL in the mixed-sex offspring of the two XY males primarily showed up-regulation in the muscle of large fish and were related to muscle growth, metabolism, and the stress response.
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- Andrea L Kocmarek
- Department of Integrative Biology, 50 Stone Rd. East, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada.,Department of Integrative Biology, 50 Stone Rd. East, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada
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- Department of Integrative Biology, 50 Stone Rd. East, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada.,Department of Integrative Biology, 50 Stone Rd. East, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada
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- Department of Integrative Biology, 50 Stone Rd. East, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada.,Department of Integrative Biology, 50 Stone Rd. East, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada
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Peng HT, Shek PN. Novel wound sealants: biomaterials and applications. Expert Rev Med Devices 2014; 7:639-59. [DOI: 10.1586/erd.10.40] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Lampe KJ, Antaris AL, Heilshorn SC. Design of three-dimensional engineered protein hydrogels for tailored control of neurite growth. Acta Biomater 2013; 9:5590-9. [PMID: 23128159 PMCID: PMC3926440 DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2012.10.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 121] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2012] [Revised: 10/07/2012] [Accepted: 10/26/2012] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The design of bioactive materials allows tailored studies probing cell-biomaterial interactions, however, relatively few studies have examined the effects of ligand density and material stiffness on neurite growth in three-dimensions. Elastin-like proteins (ELPs) have been designed with modular bioactive and structural regions to enable the systematic characterization of design parameters within three-dimensional (3-D) materials. To promote neurite out-growth and better understand the effects of common biomaterial design parameters on neuronal cultures we here focused on the cell-adhesive ligand density and hydrogel stiffness as design variables for ELP hydrogels. With the inherent design freedom of engineered proteins these 3-D ELP hydrogels enabled decoupled investigations into the effects of biomechanics and biochemistry on neurite out-growth from dorsal root ganglia. Increasing the cell-adhesive RGD ligand density from 0 to 1.9×10(7)ligands μm(-3) led to a significant increase in the rate, length, and density of neurite out-growth, as quantified by a high throughput algorithm developed for dense neurite analysis. An approximately two-fold improvement in total neurite out-growth was observed in materials with the higher ligand density at all time points up to 7 days. ELP hydrogels with initial elastic moduli of 0.5, 1.5, or 2.1kPa and identical RGD ligand densities revealed that the most compliant materials led to the greatest out-growth, with some neurites extending over 1800μm by day 7. Given the ability of ELP hydrogels to efficiently promote neurite out-growth within defined and tunable 3-D microenvironments these materials may be useful in developing therapeutic nerve guides and the further study of basic neuron-biomaterial interactions.
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- Kyle J. Lampe
- Materials Science and Engineering Department, Stanford University
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Duarte A, Coelho J, Bordado J, Cidade M, Gil M. Surgical adhesives: Systematic review of the main types and development forecast. Prog Polym Sci 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.progpolymsci.2011.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 168] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Sieminski AL, Gooch KJ. Salmon fibrin supports an increased number of sprouts and decreased degradation while maintaining sprout length relative to human fibrin in an in vitro angiogenesis model. JOURNAL OF BIOMATERIALS SCIENCE-POLYMER EDITION 2012; 15:237-42. [PMID: 15109101 DOI: 10.1163/156856204322793610] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Salmon-derived fibrin has been proposed as a preferred alternative to human or bovine fibrin because of its reduced potential for disease transmission. Here we evaluate salmon fibrin as an alternative ECM support for therapeutic angiogenesis applications, such as vascularizing engineered tissues. Human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) seeded on gelatin beads and suspended in either salmon or human fibrin sprouted and formed capillary-like structures. Sprout length was generally increased with the addition of bFGF and VEGF and further increased with the addition of phorbol myristate acetate (PMA). The number of sprouts per bead was increased 61-188% in salmon fibrin relative to human fibrin (alpha < 0.0005) in cultures receiving growth factors and PMA, while average sprout lengths were similar for HUVEC within human or salmon fibrin. Additionally, under these conditions in the absence of a protease inhibitor, HUVEC appeared to degrade human, but not salmon, fibrin. These results support the idea that salmon fibrin may be an attractive alternative ECM able to support microvascular network formation.
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- Alisha L Sieminski
- Department of Bioengineering and Institute for Medicine and Engineering, 120 Hayden Hall, 3320 Smith Walk, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA19104-6392, USA
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Sharp KG, Dickson AR, Marchenko SA, Yee KM, Emery PN, Laidmåe I, Uibo R, Sawyer ES, Steward O, Flanagan LA. Salmon fibrin treatment of spinal cord injury promotes functional recovery and density of serotonergic innervation. Exp Neurol 2012; 235:345-56. [PMID: 22414309 DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2012.02.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2011] [Revised: 01/25/2012] [Accepted: 02/25/2012] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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The neural degeneration caused by spinal cord injury leaves a cavity at the injury site that greatly inhibits repair. One approach to promoting repair is to fill the cavity with a scaffold to limit further damage and encourage regrowth. Injectable materials are advantageous scaffolds because they can be placed as a liquid in the lesion site then form a solid in vivo that precisely matches the contours of the lesion. Fibrin is one type of injectable scaffold, but risk of infection from blood borne pathogens has limited its use. We investigated the potential utility of salmon fibrin as an injectable scaffold to treat spinal cord injury since it lacks mammalian infectious agents and encourages greater neuronal extension in vitro than mammalian fibrin or Matrigel®, another injectable material. Female rats received a T9 dorsal hemisection injury and were treated with either salmon or human fibrin at the time of injury while a third group served as untreated controls. Locomotor function was assessed using the BBB scale, bladder function was analyzed by measuring residual urine, and sensory responses were tested by mechanical stimulation (von Frey hairs). Histological analyses quantified the glial scar, lesion volume, and serotonergic fiber density. Rats that received salmon fibrin exhibited significantly improved recovery of both locomotor and bladder function and a greater density of serotonergic innervation caudal to the lesion site without exacerbation of pain. Rats treated with salmon fibrin also exhibited less autophagia than those treated with human fibrin, potentially pointing to amelioration of sensory dysfunction. Glial scar formation and lesion size did not differ significantly among groups. The pattern and timing of salmon fibrin's effects suggest that it acts on neuronal populations but not by stimulating long tract regeneration. Salmon fibrin clearly has properties distinct from those of mammalian fibrin and is a beneficial injectable scaffold for treatment of spinal cord injury.
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- Kelli G Sharp
- Reeve-Irvine Research Center and Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-1705, USA
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Laidmäe I, Belozjorova J, Sawyer ES, Janmey PA, Uibo R. Salmon fibrin glue in rats: Antibody studies. Biologicals 2012; 40:55-60. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biologicals.2011.12.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2011] [Revised: 12/05/2011] [Accepted: 12/16/2011] [Indexed: 10/14/2022] Open
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Weisshaar CL, Winer JP, Guarino BB, Janmey PA, Winkelstein BA. The potential for salmon fibrin and thrombin to mitigate pain subsequent to cervical nerve root injury. Biomaterials 2011; 32:9738-46. [PMID: 21944723 DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2011.09.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2011] [Accepted: 09/07/2011] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Nerve root compression is a common cause of radiculopathy and induces persistent pain. Mammalian fibrin is used clinically as a coagulant but presents a variety of risks. Fish fibrin is a potential biomaterial for neural injury treatment because it promotes neurite outgrowth, is non-toxic, and clots readily at lower temperatures. This study administered salmon fibrin and thrombin following nerve root compression and measured behavioral sensitivity and glial activation in a rat pain model. Fibrin and thrombin each significantly reduced mechanical allodynia compared to injury alone (p < 0.02). Painful compression with fibrin exhibited allodynia that was not different from sham for any day using stimulation by a 2 g filament; allodynia was only significantly different (p < 0.043) from sham using the 4 g filament on days 1 and 3. By day 5, responses for fibrin treatment decreased to sham levels. Allodynia following compression with thrombin treatment were unchanged from sham at any time point. Macrophage infiltration at the nerve root and spinal microglial activation were only mildly modified by salmon treatments. Spinal astrocytic expression decreased significantly with fibrin (p < 0.0001) but was unchanged from injury responses for thrombin treatment. Results suggest that salmon fibrin and thrombin may be suitable biomaterials to mitigate pain.
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- Christine L Weisshaar
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6321, USA.
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Laidmäe I, Salum T, Sawyer ES, Janmey PA, Uibo R. Characterization of the biological effect of fish fibrin glue in experiments on rats: immunological and coagulation studies. J Biomed Mater Res A 2010; 93:29-36. [PMID: 19484773 DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.32505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Fibrin glues (FG) of human or bovine origin are widely used for haemostasis and wound healing. In addition FGs are studied in many biomedical areas like cell therapy or tissue engineering. As any mammalian plasma products FG-s pose risk of transmission of bacteria, viruses, or prions and may compromise patient homeostasis. In this study, we examined coagulation parameters and immunological status of rats treated with salmon-derived FG. We evaluated the changes in thrombin time, prothrombin activity, and presence of antibodies on 46 Wistar rats. This study shows that salmon-derived FG, injected intraperitoneally, does not cause coagulation disturbances in the peripheral blood. After a first challenge with salmon-derived FG there were low but detectable amounts of antibodies revealed by ELISA and immunoblot. After a second administration there was substantial elevation of antibodies to FG components and other copurifying plasma proteins. Antibody reactivity to human Factor Va, revealed in three animals, was not associated with FG application. Taken together, blood immunological and coagulation parameters support the suitability of salmon-derived FG in the development of fibrin sealants for medical use.
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- Ivo Laidmäe
- Department of Immunology, University of Tartu, Ravila Street 19, Tartu 51014, Estonia
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Rothwell SW, Sawyer E, Dorsey J, Flournoy WS, Settle T, Simpson D, Cadd G, Janmey P, White C, Szabo KA. Wound healing and the immune response in swine treated with a hemostatic bandage composed of salmon thrombin and fibrinogen. JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE. MATERIALS IN MEDICINE 2009; 20:2155-2166. [PMID: 19449202 PMCID: PMC3118472 DOI: 10.1007/s10856-009-3769-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2008] [Accepted: 04/27/2009] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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We investigated the inflammatory response in pigs exposed to salmon fibrinogen/thrombin dressings. Animals were exposed to the material in 3 ways: (a) thrombin and fibrinogen were injected intravenously, (b) dual full-thickness skin lesions were surgically created on the dorsal aspect of the swine and treated with the fibrinogen/thrombin bandage and a commercial bandage or (c) a fibrinogen/thrombin bandage was inserted through an abdominal incision into the peritoneal cavity. Blood was collected twice weekly and animals were sacrificed at 7, 10 or 28 days. Animals in the 28-day dermal lesion group were given an injection of salmon fibrinogen/thrombin at the 10 day point to simulate a second bandage application. The immune response manifested itself as induction of germinal centers in mesenteric lymph nodes and in the white pulp of the spleen. Examination of the histology of the skin and organs showed a cellular inflammatory response with granulation tissue and signs of edema that resolved by the 28-day stage. Antibodies reactive to salmon and human thrombin and fibrinogen were detected, but fibrinogen levels and coagulation processes were not affected. In conclusion, animals treated with salmon fibrinogen/thrombin bandages demonstrated a smooth recovery course in terms of both tissue healing and the immune response without adverse effects from the exposure to the fish proteins.
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- Stephen W Rothwell
- Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Genetics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814-4799, USA.
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Winer JP, Oake S, Janmey PA. Non-linear elasticity of extracellular matrices enables contractile cells to communicate local position and orientation. PLoS One 2009; 4:e6382. [PMID: 19629190 PMCID: PMC2711623 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006382] [Citation(s) in RCA: 239] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2009] [Accepted: 06/18/2009] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Most tissue cells grown in sparse cultures on linearly elastic substrates typically display a small, round phenotype on soft substrates and become increasingly spread as the modulus of the substrate increases until their spread area reaches a maximum value. As cell density increases, individual cells retain the same stiffness-dependent differences unless they are very close or in molecular contact. On nonlinear strain-stiffening fibrin gels, the same cell types become maximally spread even when the low strain elastic modulus would predict a round morphology, and cells are influenced by the presence of neighbors hundreds of microns away. Time lapse microscopy reveals that fibroblasts and human mesenchymal stem cells on fibrin deform the substrate by several microns up to five cell lengths away from their plasma membrane through a force limited mechanism. Atomic force microscopy and rheology confirm that these strains locally and globally stiffen the gel, depending on cell density, and this effect leads to long distance cell-cell communication and alignment. Thus cells are acutely responsive to the nonlinear elasticity of their substrates and can manipulate this rheological property to induce patterning.
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- Jessamine P Winer
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
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Uibo R, Laidmäe I, Sawyer ES, Flanagan LA, Georges PC, Winer JP, Janmey PA. Soft materials to treat central nervous system injuries: evaluation of the suitability of non-mammalian fibrin gels. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2009; 1793:924-30. [PMID: 19344675 PMCID: PMC2895977 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2009.01.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2008] [Revised: 01/06/2009] [Accepted: 01/07/2009] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Polymeric scaffolds formed from synthetic or natural materials have many applications in tissue engineering and medicine, and multiple material properties need to be optimized for specific applications. Recent studies have emphasized the importance of the scaffolds' mechanical properties to support specific cellular responses in addition to considerations of biochemical interactions, material transport, immunogenicity, and other factors that determine biocompatibility. Fibrin gels formed from purified fibrinogen and thrombin, the final two reactants in the blood coagulation cascade, have long been shown to be effective in wound healing and supporting the growth of cells in vitro and in vivo. Fibrin, even without additional growth factors or other components has potential for use in neuronal wound healing in part because of its mechanical compliance that supports the growth of neurons without activation of glial proliferation. This review summarizes issues related to the use of fibrin gels in neuronal cell contexts, with an emphasis on issues of immunogenicity, and considers the potential advantages and disadvantages of fibrin prepared from non-mammalian sources.
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- Raivo Uibo
- Immunology Group, IGMP University of Tartu, Ravila Street 19, Tartu 51014, Estonia
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Kang H, Wen Q, Janmey PA, Tang JX, Conti E, MacKintosh FC. Nonlinear elasticity of stiff filament networks: strain stiffening, negative normal stress, and filament alignment in fibrin gels. J Phys Chem B 2009; 113:3799-805. [PMID: 19243107 PMCID: PMC3210038 DOI: 10.1021/jp807749f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Many biomaterials formed by cross-linked semiflexible or rigid filaments exhibit nonlinear theology in the form of strain-stiffening and negative normal stress when samples are deformed in simple shear geometry. Two different classes of theoretical models have been developed to explain this nonlinear elastic response, which is neither predicted by rubber elasticity theory nor observed in elastomers or gels formed by flexible polymers. One model considers the response of isotropic networks of semiflexible polymers that have nonlinear force-elongation relations arising from their thermal fluctuations. The other considers networks of rigid filaments with linear force-elongation relations in which nonlinearity arises from nonaffine deformation and a shift from filament bending to stretching at increasing strains. Fibrin gels are a good experimental system to test these theories because the fibrin monomer assembles under different conditions to form either thermally fluctuating protofibrils with persistence length on the order of the network mesh size, or thicker rigid fibers. Comparison of rheologic and optical measurements shows that strain stiffening and negative normal stress appear at smaller strains than those at which filament orientation is evident from birefringence. Comparisons of shear to normal stresses and the strain-dependence of shear moduli and birefringence suggest methods to evaluate the applicability of different theories of rod-like polymer networks. The strain-dependence of the ratio of normal stress to shear stress is one parameter that distinguishes semiflexible and rigid filament models, and comparisons with experiments reveal conditions under which specific theories may be applicable.
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- Hyeran Kang
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
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DeRouchey J, Schmidt C, Walker GF, Koch C, Plank C, Wagner E, Rädler JO. Monomolecular Assembly of siRNA and Poly(ethylene glycol)−Peptide Copolymers. Biomacromolecules 2008; 9:724-32. [DOI: 10.1021/bm7011482] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Jason DeRouchey
- Department of Physics, Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, and Center for NanoScience, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 80539 Munich, Germany, Institute of Experimental Oncology, Technische Universität, 81675 Munich, Germany, and National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20692
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- Department of Physics, Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, and Center for NanoScience, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 80539 Munich, Germany, Institute of Experimental Oncology, Technische Universität, 81675 Munich, Germany, and National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20692
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- Department of Physics, Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, and Center for NanoScience, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 80539 Munich, Germany, Institute of Experimental Oncology, Technische Universität, 81675 Munich, Germany, and National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20692
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- Department of Physics, Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, and Center for NanoScience, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 80539 Munich, Germany, Institute of Experimental Oncology, Technische Universität, 81675 Munich, Germany, and National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20692
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- Department of Physics, Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, and Center for NanoScience, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 80539 Munich, Germany, Institute of Experimental Oncology, Technische Universität, 81675 Munich, Germany, and National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20692
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- Department of Physics, Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, and Center for NanoScience, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 80539 Munich, Germany, Institute of Experimental Oncology, Technische Universität, 81675 Munich, Germany, and National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20692
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- Department of Physics, Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, and Center for NanoScience, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 80539 Munich, Germany, Institute of Experimental Oncology, Technische Universität, 81675 Munich, Germany, and National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20692
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Ju YE, Janmey PA, McCormick M, Sawyer ES, Flanagan LA. Enhanced neurite growth from mammalian neurons in three-dimensional salmon fibrin gels. Biomaterials 2007; 28:2097-108. [PMID: 17258313 PMCID: PMC1991290 DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2007.01.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2006] [Accepted: 01/01/2007] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Three-dimensional fibrin matrices have been used as cellular substrates in vitro and as bridging materials for central nervous system repair. Cells can be embedded within fibrin gels since the polymerization process is non-toxic, making fibrin an attractive scaffold for transplanted cells. Most studies have utilized fibrin prepared from human or bovine blood proteins. However, fish fibrin may be well suited for neuronal growth since fish undergo remarkable central nervous system regeneration and molecules implicated in this process are present in fibrin. We assessed the growth of mammalian central nervous system neurons in bovine, human, and salmon fibrin and found that salmon fibrin gels encouraged the greatest degree of neurite (dendrite and axon) growth and were the most resistant to degradation by cellular proteases. The neurite growth-promoting effect was not due to the thrombin used to polymerize the gels nor to any copurifying plasminogen. Copurified fibronectin partially accounted for the effect on neurites, and blockade of fibrinogen/fibrin-binding integrins markedly decreased neurite growth. Anion exchange chromatography revealed different elution profiles for salmon and mammalian fibrinogens. These data demonstrate that salmon fibrin encourages the growth of neurites from mammalian neurons and suggest that salmon fibrin may be a beneficial scaffold for neuronal regrowth after CNS injury.
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- Yo-El Ju
- Division of Experimental Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
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- Division of Experimental Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
- Department of Physiology and Institute for Medicine and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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- Department of Physiology and Institute for Medicine and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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- Division of Experimental Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
- Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697
- Address correspondence to: Lisa A. Flanagan, Ph.D., Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of California at Irvine, D440 Medical Sciences I, Irvine, CA 92697-4800, Tel: (949) 824-5786, Fax: (949) 824-2160,
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Janmey PA, McCormick ME, Rammensee S, Leight JL, Georges PC, MacKintosh FC. Negative normal stress in semiflexible biopolymer gels. NATURE MATERIALS 2007; 6:48-51. [PMID: 17187066 DOI: 10.1038/nmat1810] [Citation(s) in RCA: 118] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2006] [Accepted: 11/06/2006] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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When subject to stress or external loads, most materials resist deformation. Any stable material, for instance, resists compression-even liquids. Solids also resist simple shear deformations that conserve volume. Under shear, however, most materials also have a tendency to expand in the direction perpendicular to the applied shear stress, a response that is known as positive normal stress. For example, wet sand tends to dilate when sheared, and therefore dries around our feet when we walk on the beach. In the case of simple solids, elastic rods or wires tend to elongate when subject to torsion. Here, we show that networks of semiflexible biopolymers such as those that make up both the cytoskeleton of cells and the extracellular matrix exhibit the opposite tendency: when sheared between two plates, they tend to pull the plates together. We show that these negative normal stresses can be as large as the shear stress and that this property is directly related to the nonlinear strain-stiffening behaviour of biopolymer gels.
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- Paul A Janmey
- Institute for Medicine and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 3340 Smith Walk, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
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Laidmäe I, McCormick ME, Herod JL, Pastore JJ, Salum T, Sawyer ES, Janmey PA, Uibo R. Stability, sterility, coagulation, and immunologic studies of salmon coagulation proteins with potential use for mammalian wound healing and cell engineering. Biomaterials 2006; 27:5771-9. [PMID: 16919721 DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2006.07.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2006] [Accepted: 07/25/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Fibrin sealants made by polymerization of fibrinogen activated by the protease thrombin have many applications in hemostasis and wound healing. In treatments of acute injury or surgical wounds, concentrated fibrin preparations mimic the initial matrix that normally prevents bleeding and acts as a scaffold for cells that initiate tissue repair. However risks of infectious disease, immunogenic reaction, and the high cost of purified human or other mammalian blood proteins limit widespread use of these materials. Purified coagulation proteins from Atlantic salmon represent a potentially safer, equally effective, and less costly alternative in part because of the low ambient temperature of these farmed animals and the absence of endogenous agents known to be infectious in mammalian hosts. This study reports rheologic measurements of lyophilized salmon fibrinogen and thrombin that demonstrate stability to prolonged storage and gamma irradiation sufficient to reduce viral loads by over five orders of magnitude. Coagulation and immunologic studies in rats and rabbits treated intraperitoneally with salmon fibrin show no deleterious effects on coagulation profiles and no cross reactivity with host fibrinogen or thrombin. The results support the potential of salmon fibrin as an alternative to mammalian proteins in clinical applications.
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- Ivo Laidmäe
- Department of Immunology, IGMP, University of Tartu, Ravila Street 19, Tartu 51014, Estonia
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Many cell types respond to forces as acutely as they do to chemical stimuli, but the mechanisms by which cells sense mechanical stimuli and how these factors alter cellular structure and function in vivo are far less explored than those triggered by chemical ligands. Forces arise both from effects outside the cell and from mechanochemical reactions within the cell that generate stresses on the surface to which the cells adhere. Several recent reviews have summarized how externally applied forces may trigger a cellular response (Silver FH and Siperko LM. Crit Rev Biomed Eng 31: 255-331, 2003; Estes BT, Gimble JM, and Guilak F. Curr Top Dev Biol 60: 91-126, 2004; Janmey PA and Weitz DA. Trends Biochem Sci 29: 364-370, 2004). The purpose of this review is to examine the information available in the current literature describing the relationship between a cell and the rigidity of the matrix on which it resides. We will review recent studies and techniques that focus on substrate compliance as a major variable in cell culture studies. We will discuss the specificity of cell response to stiffness and discuss how this may be important in particular tissue systems. We will attempt to link the mechanoresponse to real pathological states and speculate on the possible biological significance of mechanosensing.
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- Penelope C Georges
- Institute for Medicine and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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Rothwell SW, Reid TJ, Dorsey J, Flournoy WS, Bodo M, Janmey PA, Sawyer E. A Salmon Thrombin-Fibrin Bandage Controls Arterial Bleeding in a Swine Aortotomy Model. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005; 59:143-9. [PMID: 16096554 DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000171528.43746.53] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND Recently, a wide variety of bandages have been formulated to attempt to improve the effectiveness of emergency intervention in situations of uncontrolled bleeding. The best of these dressings contain a mixture of human thrombin and fibrinogen. The presence of human components in these bandages, although effective, increases the cost of the dressing and raises questions of availability of raw materials and transmission of pathogens. The purpose of this study was to investigate the efficacy of dressings composed of salmon thrombin and fibrinogen in a swine aortotomy model. METHODS A 4.4-mm aortotomy was produced in the abdominal aorta of 19 anesthetized, splenectomized swine. The United States Army standard field gauze was applied to 8 animals, and the salmon thrombin-fibrin dressing (SFD) was applied to 11 animals. Survival, blood loss, and other parameters were measured over a 60-minute period. RESULTS All 11 animals that received the SFD survived the aortotomy injury, and bleeding stopped within 7.5 +/- 1.5 min. Seven of 8 animals in the control group were killed when bleeding continued and blood pressures decreased to the cutoff values as outlined in the animal protocol. Bleeding was significantly less in the SFD group compared with the gauze group (241 +/- 65.3 vs. 932.7 +/- 142.4 mL). CONCLUSION Fibrin dressing using salmon-derived thrombin and fibrinogen is effective in controlling severe, uncontrolled bleeding. This dressing may offer an alternative to dressings composed of human coagulation proteins.
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- Stephen W Rothwell
- Department of Blood Research, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910-7500, USA.
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Kheirabadi BS, Acheson EM, Deguzman R, Sondeen JL, Ryan KL, Delgado A, Dick EJ, Holcomb JB. Hemostatic Efficacy of Two Advanced Dressings in an Aortic Hemorrhage Model in Swine. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005; 59:25-34; discussion 34-5. [PMID: 16096535 DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000171458.72037.ee] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND An effective hemostatic agent capable of stopping severe arterial bleeding and sustaining hemostasis over a prolonged time is required. The U.S. Army recently distributed fibrin sealant (under an Investigational New Drug-approved protocol) and chitosan dressings among deployed medics for treating severe external hemorrhage on the battlefield. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of these dressings, as compared with the standard gauze army field dressing, to provide initial and sustained hemostasis up to 96 hours in a lethal uncontrolled arterial hemorrhage model. METHODS Anesthetized pigs were splenectomized and chronically instrumented for fluid/drug administration and continuous monitoring of vital signs. An infrarenal aortotomy was created using a 4.4-mm aortic hole punch and free bleeding was allowed for 5 seconds. While bleeding profusely, a dressing was applied and pressed into the wound for 4 minutes (occluding the distal flow) and then released. If hemostasis was not obtained, the dressing was replaced with a new one (maximum, two dressings per experiment) with another 4-minute compression. If hemostasis was achieved, the abdomen was closed; the animal was then recovered and monitored up to 96 hours. Initial hemostasis, duration of hemostasis, survival time, blood loss, and other variables were measured. RESULTS Application of army field dressing (gauze) did not stop the arterial hemorrhage and led to exsanguination of all the pigs (n = 6) within 10 to 15 minutes of the injury. Chitosan dressing produced initial hemostasis in five of seven pigs. However, the dressings failed to maintain hemostasis for more than 1.6 hours (range, 28-102 minutes), resulting in secondary bleeding and death of the animals. Fibrin sealant dressing produced initial hemostasis in all the pigs (n = 6) and maintained hemostasis in five cases, with one failure at 2.2 hours. These pigs resumed normal activities and lived for the 96-hour experiment duration. Computed tomographic images and histologic sections of the aortas from surviving fibrin sealant dressing-treated animals showed formation of pseudoaneurysms and early granulation tissue at the aortotomy site. The posttreatment blood loss, duration of hemostasis, and survival time were significantly different in the fibrin sealant dressing group than the chitosan dressing and army field dressing groups. CONCLUSION Both chitosan dressing and fibrin sealant dressing stopped initial arterial bleeding that could not be controlled by the standard army field dressing. However, although the fibrin sealant dressing secured hemostasis for up to 4 days, the chitosan dressing consistently failed within 2 hours after application. There may be a risk of rebleeding for high-pressure arterial wounds treated with chitosan dressings, particularly in situations where definitive care is delayed substantially.
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- Bijan S Kheirabadi
- U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research, Fort Sam Houston, Texas 8234-6315, USA.
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Storm C, Pastore JJ, MacKintosh FC, Lubensky TC, Janmey PA. Nonlinear elasticity in biological gels. Nature 2005; 435:191-4. [PMID: 15889088 DOI: 10.1038/nature03521] [Citation(s) in RCA: 993] [Impact Index Per Article: 52.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2004] [Accepted: 03/07/2005] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The mechanical properties of soft biological tissues are essential to their physiological function and cannot easily be duplicated by synthetic materials. Unlike simple polymer gels, many biological materials--including blood vessels, mesentery tissue, lung parenchyma, cornea and blood clots--stiffen as they are strained, thereby preventing large deformations that could threaten tissue integrity. The molecular structures and design principles responsible for this nonlinear elasticity are unknown. Here we report a molecular theory that accounts for strain-stiffening in a range of molecularly distinct gels formed from cytoskeletal and extracellular proteins and that reveals universal stress-strain relations at low to intermediate strains. The input to this theory is the force-extension curve for individual semi-flexible filaments and the assumptions that biological networks composed of these filaments are homogeneous, isotropic, and that they strain uniformly. This theory shows that systems of filamentous proteins arranged in an open crosslinked mesh invariably stiffen at low strains without requiring a specific architecture or multiple elements with different intrinsic stiffness.
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- Cornelis Storm
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, 209 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
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Manseth E, Skjervold PO, Flengsrud R. Sample displacement chromatography of Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) thrombin. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005; 60:39-47. [PMID: 15236909 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbbm.2004.04.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2004] [Revised: 02/10/2004] [Accepted: 04/26/2004] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A modified method of sample displacement chromatography (SDC) was used to purify active salmon thrombin on a heparin-coupled matrix to near homogeneity in milligram amounts from 117 ml plasma. This was achieved by combining a low-pressure multi-column affinity chromatography system with non-homogenous sample application in the order of increasing affinity to Heparin Sepharose. The results suggest that this modified method could be useful in protein purification. Some characteristics of salmon thrombin are presented.
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- Even Manseth
- Department of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, Agricultural University of Norway, Chr.M.Falsensgate 1, P.O. Box 5040, N-1432 As, Norway.
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Manseth E, Skjervold PO, Fjaera SO, Brosstad FR, Bjørnson S, Flengsrud R. Purification and characterization of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) fibrinogen. Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol 2005; 138:169-74. [PMID: 15193272 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpc.2004.03.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2004] [Revised: 03/09/2004] [Accepted: 03/10/2004] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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This study describes a purification protocol of salmon fibrinogen that gives a consumable and highly clottable fibrinogen. Some characteristics of salmon and human fibrinogen are compared. Fibrinogen was purified from barium sulphate adsorbed plasma of Atlantic salmon, using two steps of 25% ammonium sulphate precipitation followed by ultrafiltration. The clottability of the purified salmon fibrinogen was 91%. The Aalpha chains of salmon fibrinogen were heterogeneous with a molecular mass of 90-110 kDa, compared to approximately 67 kDa of human fibrinogen Aalpha chains. The Bbeta and gamma chains of salmon and human fibrinogen had molecular masses of approximately 55 and 50 kDa, respectively. Western blotting revealed that polyclonal rabbit anti-human fibrinogen antibodies had affinity for the gamma chains of salmon fibrinogen, making it possible to study factor XIII activity in purified salmon fibrinogen. Cross-linking of either gamma-gamma or gamma-alpha chains was not detected upon incubation of the purified fibrinogen with thrombin and calcium alone, but was detected when clotting was performed in plasma indicating absence of factor XIII activity in the purified product.
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- Even Manseth
- Department of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, Agricultural University of Norway, Chr. M. Falsensgate 1, P.O. Box 5040, N-1432 As, Norway.
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Yeung T, Georges PC, Flanagan LA, Marg B, Ortiz M, Funaki M, Zahir N, Ming W, Weaver V, Janmey PA. Effects of substrate stiffness on cell morphology, cytoskeletal structure, and adhesion. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 60:24-34. [PMID: 15573414 DOI: 10.1002/cm.20041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1593] [Impact Index Per Article: 79.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The morphology and cytoskeletal structure of fibroblasts, endothelial cells, and neutrophils are documented for cells cultured on surfaces with stiffness ranging from 2 to 55,000 Pa that have been laminated with fibronectin or collagen as adhesive ligand. When grown in sparse culture with no cell-cell contacts, fibroblasts and endothelial cells show an abrupt change in spread area that occurs at a stiffness range around 3,000 Pa. No actin stress fibers are seen in fibroblasts on soft surfaces, and the appearance of stress fibers is abrupt and complete at a stiffness range coincident with that at which they spread. Upregulation of alpha5 integrin also occurs in the same stiffness range, but exogenous expression of alpha5 integrin is not sufficient to cause cell spreading on soft surfaces. Neutrophils, in contrast, show no dependence of either resting shape or ability to spread after activation when cultured on surfaces as soft as 2 Pa compared to glass. The shape and cytoskeletal differences evident in single cells on soft compared to hard substrates are eliminated when fibroblasts or endothelial cells make cell-cell contact. These results support the hypothesis that mechanical factors impact different cell types in fundamentally different ways, and can trigger specific changes similar to those stimulated by soluble ligands.
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- Tony Yeung
- Institute for Medicine and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, PA 19104, USA
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Manseth E, Skjervold P, Flera S, Brosstad F, Odegaard O, Flengsrud R. Developing a Fish Meat-binding Agent: Purification of Salmon Thrombin. J Food Sci 2003. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2621.2003.tb12307.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Michaud SE, Wang LZ, Korde N, Bucki R, Randhawa PK, Pastore JJ, Falet H, Hoffmeister K, Kuuse R, Uibo R, Herod J, Sawyer E, Janmey PA. Purification of salmon thrombin and its potential as an alternative to mammalian thrombins in fibrin sealants. Thromb Res 2002; 107:245-54. [PMID: 12479886 DOI: 10.1016/s0049-3848(02)00333-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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A method to produce highly purified thrombin from salmon blood is described, and a series of biochemical, cell biologic, and biophysical assays demonstrate the functional similarities and some differences between salmon and human thrombins. Salmon thrombin with specific activity greater than 1000 units/mg total protein can be prepared by modifications of the methods used for purification of human thrombin. Using a synthetic substrate based on the human fibrinogen A-alpha polypeptide sequence as an indicator of enzymatic activity, salmon and human thrombin preparations contain similar specific activities per mass of purified protein. Salmon thrombin activates human fibrinogen and initiates the formation of fibrin clots whose structure and rheologic properties are indistinguishable from those of human fibrin clotted by human thrombin. Salmon thrombin also activates human platelets. Approximately 10 times higher activities are needed for the same rate of platelet aggregation compared to human thrombin, and some aspects of platelet activation, most notably phosphatidylserine exposure, are diminished relative to the effects of human thrombin. This latter finding suggests that salmon thrombin may not activate all of the receptors that are targets of human thrombin, although it does appear to activate signals that are sufficient to produce normal rates of activation and aggregation as measured by conventional aggregometry. Together with the recent purification of salmon fibrinogen and its application in mammalian wound healing, the availability of salmon thrombin allows the formulation of biological sealants devoid of any exogenous mammalian proteins and so may aid the design of materials with increased safety from infectious disease transmission.
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- Sarah E Michaud
- Hematology Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, LMRC #302, 221 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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