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ArticleActa biomaterialia2012

Design and characterization of microporous hyaluronic acid hydrogels for in vitro gene transfer to mMSCs.

Talar Tokatlian, Cynthia Cam, Shayne N Siegman, Yuguo Lei, Tatiana Segura

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Article in Acta biomaterialia, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. It's All in the Delivery: Designing Hydrogels for Cell and Non-viral Gene Therapies.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2018
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  9. Biomaterials for Craniofacial Bone Regeneration.Dental clinics of North America · 2017
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Talar TokatlianChemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
Cynthia Cam
Shayne N Siegman
Yuguo Lei
Tatiana Segura

Funding

Biotechnology Training in Biomedical Sciences and EngineeringT32GM067555 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI GU, ZHEN · 2005 to 2019
$2.8M
Hydrogels for Local Gene Delivery and Therapeutic AngiogenesisR01HL110592 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI SEGURA, TATIANA · 2011 to 2015
$1.8M
Biomaterials for Cell Triggered Gene TransferR21EB007730 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI SEGURA, TATIANA · 2008 to 2009
$386k
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL110592NHLBI NIH HHS R01HL110592NIBIB NIH HHS R21 EB007730NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM067555NIGMS NIH HHS T32GM067555
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The effective and sustained delivery of DNA locally could increase the applicability of gene therapy in tissue regeneration and therapeutic angiogenesis. One promising approach is to use porous hydrogel scaffolds to encapsulate and deliver nucleotides in the form of nanoparticles to the affected sites. We have designed and characterized microporous (μ-pore) hyaluronic acid hydrogels which allow for effective cell seeding in vitro post-scaffold fabrication and allow for cell spreading and proliferation without requiring high levels of degradation. These factors, coupled with high loading efficiency of DNA polyplexes using a previously developed caged nanoparticle encapsulation (CnE) technique, then allowed for long-term sustained transfection and transgene expression of incorporated mMSCs. In this study, we examined the effect of pore size on gene transfer efficiency and the kinetics of transgene expression. For all investigated pore sizes (30, 60, and 100 μm), encapsulated DNA polyplexes were released steadily, starting by day 4 for up to 10 days. Likewise, transgene expression was sustained over this period, although significant differences between different pore sizes were not observed. Cell viability was also shown to remain high over time, even in the presence of high concentrations of DNA polyplexes. The knowledge acquired through this in vitro model can be utilized to design and better predict scaffold-mediated gene delivery for local gene therapy in an in vivo model where host cells infiltrate the scaffold over time.

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Gene Transfer TechniquesAnimalsCell SurvivalDeoxycytosine NucleotidesDNAHyaluronic AcidHydrogelsLuciferasesMaleMesenchymal Stem CellsMiceMice, Inbred BALB CMicroscopy, Electron, ScanningPlasmidsPolyethyleneiminePorosity2'-deoxycytidine 5'-triphosphateDeoxycytosine NucleotidesDNAHyaluronic AcidHydrogelsLuciferasesPolyethyleneimine

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PMID22820309
PMCPMC3678541

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