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ArticleJournal of biomedical materials research. Part A2015

Coculture of dorsal root ganglion neurons and differentiated human corneal stromal stem cells on silk-based scaffolds.

Siran Wang, Chiara E Ghezzi, James D White, David L Kaplan

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Article in Journal of biomedical materials research. Part A, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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12 citing papers in PubMed, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Siran WangDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, 4 Colby St., Medford, Massachusetts, 02155.
Chiara E GhezziDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, 4 Colby St., Medford, Massachusetts, 02155.
James D WhiteDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, 4 Colby St., Medford, Massachusetts, 02155.
David L KaplanDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, 4 Colby St., Medford, Massachusetts, 02155.
Tufts University · US

Funding

Stem Cells for Corneal EngineeringR01EY016415 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI DU, YIQIN · 2006 to 2018
$4.5M
Tissue Engineering Cornea ReplacementsR01EY020856 · NEI · TUFTS UNIVERSITY MEDFORD · PI KAPLAN, DAVID L. · 2010 to 2016
$2.7M
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY016415NEI NIH HHS R01 EY020856
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Corneal tissue displays the highest peripheral nerve density in the human body. Engineering of biomaterials to promote interactions between neurons and corneal tissue could provide tissue models for nerve/cornea development, platforms for drug screening, as well as innovative opportunities to regenerate cornea tissue. The focus of this study was to develop a coculture system for differentiated human corneal stromal stem cells (dhCSSCs) and dorsal root ganglion neurons (DRG) to mimic the human cornea tissue interactions. Axon extension, connectivity, and neuron cell viability were studied. DRG neurons developed longer axons when cocultured with dhCSSCs in comparison to neuron cultures alone. To assess the mechanism involved in the coculture response, nerve growth factors (NGF) secreted by dhCSSCs including NGF, brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), glial cell-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF), and neurotrophin-3 were characterized with greater focus on BDNF secretion. DhCSSCs also secreted collagen type I, an extracellular matrix molecule favorable for neuronal outgrowth. This coculture system provides a slowly degrading silk matrix to study neuronal responses in concert with hCSSCs related to innervation of corneal tissue with utility toward human corneal nerve regeneration and associated diseases.

Indexed as

Cell DifferentiationAnimalsChick EmbryoCoculture TechniquesGanglia, SpinalHumansMesenchymal Stem CellsNeuronsSilkTissue ScaffoldsSilkcoculturecollagencorneaneuronssilk

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PMID25809662
PMCPMC4552610
OpenAlexW2096177074

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