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ArticleACS applied materials & interfaces2018

Thiol-Epoxy "Click" Chemistry to Engineer Cytocompatible PEG-Based Hydrogel for siRNA-Mediated Osteogenesis of hMSCs.

Cong Truc Huynh, Fangze Liu, Yuxuan Cheng, Katherine A Coughlin, Eben Alsberg

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Article in ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2018. 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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21citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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21 citing papers in PubMed, 53 citations in OpenAlex.

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  16. Rational design of hydrogels to enhance osteogenic potential.Chemistry of materials : a publication of the American Chemical Society · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Cong Truc HuynhDepartment of Biomedical Engineering , Case Western Reserve University , Cleveland , Ohio 44106 , United States.
Fangze LiuDepartment of Biomedical Engineering , Case Western Reserve University , Cleveland , Ohio 44106 , United States.
Yuxuan ChengDepartment of Biomedical Engineering , Case Western Reserve University , Cleveland , Ohio 44106 , United States.
Katherine A CoughlinDepartment of Biomedical Engineering , Northwestern University , Evanston , Illinois 60208 , United States.
Eben AlsbergDepartment of Biomedical Engineering , Case Western Reserve University , Cleveland , Ohio 44106 , United States.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3487-4625
Case Western Reserve University · USNorthwestern University · US

Funding

Opposing RNAi Molecule Gradient Constructs to Repair Osteochondral DefectsR01AR069564 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI ALSBERG, EBEN · 2016 to 2021
$1.8M
Driving Tissue Formation by Inductive Stem Cell Sheet TechnologyR01AR063194 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI ALSBERG, EBEN · 2012 to 2016
$1.7M
NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR063194NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR069564
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Thiol-epoxy "click" chemistry is employed for the first time to engineer a new cytocompatible PEG-based hydrogel system in aqueous media with the ability to encapsulate human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) and control their fate for tissue regeneration. Cells were easily encapsulated into the hydrogels and exhibited high cell viability over 4 weeks of culture regardless of the presence of siRNA, complexed with polyethylenimine (PEI) in the form of siRNA/PEI nanocomplexes, indicating the biocompatibility of the developed hydrogel. Loading pro-osteogenic siNoggin in the hydrogel significantly enhanced the osteogenesis of encapsulated hMSCs, demonstrating the potential application of this system in tissue engineering.

Indexed as

Click ChemistryCell DifferentiationCells, CulturedHumansHydrogel, Polyethylene Glycol DimethacrylateHydrogelsMesenchymal Stem CellsOsteogenesisRNA, Small InterferingSulfhydryl CompoundsTissue EngineeringHydrogel, Polyethylene Glycol DimethacrylateHydrogelsRNA, Small InterferingSulfhydryl Compoundsbiomaterialclick chemistryhydrogelRNAistem cell differentiationtissue regeneration

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PMID29986132
PMCPMC6930143
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