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  • 标题:Mechanically stable fibrin scaffolds promote viability and induce neurite outgrowth in neural aggregates derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells
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  • 作者:Meghan Robinson ; Sarah Douglas ; Stephanie Michelle Willerth
  • 期刊名称:Scientific Reports
  • 电子版ISSN:2045-2322
  • 出版年度:2017
  • 卷号:7
  • 期号:1
  • DOI:10.1038/s41598-017-06570-9
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:Springer Nature
  • 摘要:Recent work demonstrated that 3D fibrin scaffolds function as an effective substrate for engineering tissues from pluripotent stem cells. However, the rapid degradation rate of fibrin remains a major limitation when differentiating human pluripotent stem cells for tissue engineering applications. The addition of crosslinking agents, such as genipin, during the polymerization process increases scaffold stability while decreasing the degradation rate of fibrin. Genipin crosslinking alters the physical characteristics of the fibrin scaffolds, which influences the behaviour of the differentiating cells seeded inside. It also possesses neuritogenic and neuroprotective properties, making it particularly attractive for engineering neural tissue from pluripotent stem cells. Here we show that genipin enhances neuronal differentiation of neural progenitors derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) in 2D culture and genipin concentration influences the morphological and mechanical properties of 3D fibrin scaffolds. These mechanically stable genipin-crosslinked fibrin scaffolds support hiPSC-derived neural aggregates and induce neurite outgrowth while remaining intact for 2 weeks as opposed to 5 days for unmodified fibrin scaffolds.
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