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ArticleJournal of tissue engineering2014

In vitro evaluation of bi-layer silk fibroin scaffolds for gastrointestinal tissue engineering.

Debra Franck, Yeun Goo Chung, Jeannine Coburn, David L Kaplan, Carlos R Estrada, Joshua R Mauney

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Article in Journal of tissue engineering, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 24% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Clinical progress and prospects of biodegradable intestinal stents.American journal of translational research · 2026
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  3. Silk fibroin-based scaffolds for tissue engineering.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2024
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  7. Scaffolding kidney organoids on silk.Journal of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine · 2019
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  9. Bioengineering the gut: future prospects of regenerative medicine.Nature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology · 2016
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Debra FranckUrological Diseases Research Center, Department of Urology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Yeun Goo ChungUrological Diseases Research Center, Department of Urology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA ; Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Jeannine CoburnDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA.
David L KaplanDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA.
Carlos R EstradaUrological Diseases Research Center, Department of Urology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA ; Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Joshua R MauneyUrological Diseases Research Center, Department of Urology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA ; Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Boston Children's Hospital · USTufts University · USHarvard University · US

Funding

Translational Bioreactors - Engineering Complex TissuesP41EB002520 · NIBIB · TUFTS UNIVERSITY MEDFORD · PI KAPLAN, DAVID L. · 2004 to 2018
$16.7M
Research Training in Pediatric Urology/CHB T32T32DK060442 · NIDDK · CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL BOSTON · PI ADAM, ROSALYN M · 2002 to 2023
$2.5M
Three-dimensional Human Kidney Tissue System for Studying Renal DiseasesF32DK098877 · NIDDK · TUFTS UNIVERSITY MEDFORD · PI COBURN, JEANNINE · 2013 to 2015
$151k
NIBIB NIH HHS P41 EB002520NIDDK NIH HHS F32 DK098877NIDDK NIH HHS T32 DK060442
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Silk fibroin scaffolds were investigated for their ability to support attachment, proliferation, and differentiation of human gastrointestinal epithelial and smooth muscle cell lines in order to ascertain their potential for tissue engineering. A bi-layer silk fibroin matrix composed of a porous silk fibroin foam annealed to a homogeneous silk fibroin film was evaluated in parallel with small intestinal submucosa scaffolds. AlamarBlue analysis revealed that silk fibroin scaffolds supported significantly higher levels of small intestinal smooth muscle cell, colon smooth muscle cell, and esophageal smooth muscle cell attachment in comparison to small intestinal submucosa. Following 7 days of culture, relative numbers of each smooth muscle cell population maintained on both scaffold groups were significantly elevated over respective 1-day levels-indicative of cell proliferation. Real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction and immunohistochemical analyses demonstrated that both silk fibroin and small intestinal submucosa scaffolds were permissive for contractile differentiation of small intestinal smooth muscle cell, colon smooth muscle cell, esophageal smooth muscle cell as determined by significant upregulation of α-smooth muscle actin and SM22α messenger RNA and protein expression levels following transforming growth factor-β1 stimulation. AlamarBlue analysis demonstrated that both matrix groups supported similar degrees of attachment and proliferation of gastrointestinal epithelial cell lines including colonic T84 cells and esophageal epithelial cells. Following 14 days of culture on both matrices, spontaneous differentiation of T84 cells toward an enterocyte lineage was confirmed by expression of brush border enzymes, lactase, and maltase, as determined by real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction and immunohistochemical analyses. In contrast to small intestinal submucosa scaffolds, silk fibroin scaffolds supported spontaneous differentiation of esophageal epithelial cells toward a suprabasal cell lineage as indicated by significant upregulation of cytokeratin 4 and cytokeratin 13 messenger RNA transcript levels. In addition, esophageal epithelial cells maintained on silk fibroin scaffolds also produced significantly higher involucrin messenger RNA transcript levels in comparison to small intestinal submucosa counterparts, indicating an increased propensity for superficial, squamous cell specification. Collectively, these data provide evidence for the potential of silk fibroin scaffolds for gastrointestinal tissue engineering applications.

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Colonesophagussilk fibroinsmall intestinetissue engineering

Identifiers

PMID25396043
PMCPMC4228923
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