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Title: | High density of immobilized galactose ligand enhances hepatocyte attachment and function | Authors: | Yin, C. Ying, L. Zhang, P.-C. Zhuo, R.-X. Kang, E.-T. Leong, K.W. Mao, H.-Q. |
Keywords: | Function maintenance Galactosylated surface Hepatocyte Immobilization Ligand |
Issue Date: | 15-Dec-2003 | Citation: | Yin, C.,Ying, L.,Zhang, P.-C.,Zhuo, R.-X.,Kang, E.-T.,Leong, K.W.,Mao, H.-Q. (2003-12-15). High density of immobilized galactose ligand enhances hepatocyte attachment and function. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research - Part A 67 (4) : 1093-1104. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. | Abstract: | Galactosylated surface is an attractive substrate for hepatocyte culture because of the specific interaction between the galactose ligand and the asialoglycoprotein receptor on hepatocytes. In this study, we described a scheme to achieve high density of immobilized galactose ligands on polyethylene terephthalate (PET) surface by first surface-grafting polyacrylic acid on plasma-pretreated PET film under UV irradiation, followed by conjugation of a galactose derivative (1-O-(6′-aminohexyl)-D-galactopyranoside) to the grafted polyacrylic acid chains. A high galactose density of 513 nmol/cm 2 on the PET surface was used in this study to investigate the behavior of cultured hepatocyte. This engineered substrate showed high affinity to fluorescein isothiocyanate-lectin binding. Primary rat hepatocytes, when seeded at a density of 2 x 105 cells/cm2, attached to the galactosylated PET substrate at a similar efficiency compared with collagen-coated substrate. The hepatocytes spontaneously formed aggregates 1 day after cell seeding and showed better maintenance of albumin secretion and urea synthesis functions than those cultured on collagen-coated surface. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. | Source Title: | Journal of Biomedical Materials Research - Part A | URI: | http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/92027 | ISSN: | 00219304 |
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