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Title: | A hybrid silk/RADA-based fibrous scaffold with triple hierarchy for ligament regeneration | Authors: | Chen, K. Sahoo, S. He, P. Ng, K.S. Toh, S.L. Goh, J.C.H. |
Issue Date: | 1-Jul-2012 | Citation: | Chen, K., Sahoo, S., He, P., Ng, K.S., Toh, S.L., Goh, J.C.H. (2012-07-01). A hybrid silk/RADA-based fibrous scaffold with triple hierarchy for ligament regeneration. Tissue Engineering - Part A 18 (13-14) : 1399-1409. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1089/ten.tea.2011.0376 | Abstract: | While silk-based microfibrous scaffolds possess excellent mechanical properties and have been used for ligament tissue-engineering applications, the microenvironment in these scaffolds is not biomimetic. We hypothesized that coating a hybrid silk scaffold with an extracellular matrix (ECM)-like network of self-assembling peptide nanofibers would provide a biomimetic three-dimensional nanofibrous microenvironment and enhance ligament tissue regeneration after bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cell (BMSC)-seeding. A novel scaffold possessing a triple structural hierarchy comprising macrofibrous knitted silk fibers, a silk microsponge, and a peptide nanofiber mesh was developed by coating self-assembled RADA16 peptide nanofibers on a silk microfiber-reinforced-sponge scaffold. Compared with the uncoated control, RADA-coated scaffolds showed enhanced BMSC proliferation, metabolism, and fibroblastic differentiation during the 3 weeks of culture. BMSC-seeded RADA-coated scaffolds showed an increasing temporal expression of key fibroblastic ECM proteins (collagen type I and III, tenascin-C), with a significantly higher tenascin-C expression compared with the controls. BMSC-seeded RADA-coated scaffolds also showed a temporal increase in total collagen and glycosaminoglycan production (the amount produced being higher than in control scaffolds) during 3 weeks of culture, and possessed 7% higher maximum tensile load compared with the BMSC-seeded control scaffolds. The results indicate that the BMSC-seeded RADA-coated hybrid silk scaffold system has the potential for use in ligament tissue-engineering applications. © 2012 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. | Source Title: | Tissue Engineering - Part A | URI: | http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/54282 | ISSN: | 19373341 | DOI: | 10.1089/ten.tea.2011.0376 |
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