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ArticleJournal of tissue engineering

Magnetic ion channel activation of TREK1 in human mesenchymal stem cells using nanoparticles promotes osteogenesis in surrounding cells.

James R Henstock, Michael Rotherham, Alicia J El Haj

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Article in Journal of tissue engineering. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 47 citations in OpenAlex.

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  17. Magnetic Nanoparticles in Bone Tissue Engineering.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

James R HenstockInstitute of Ageing and Chronic Disease, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
Michael RotherhamInstitute of Science and Technology in Medicine, Guy Hilton Research Centre, Keele University, Staffordshire, UK.
Alicia J El HajInstitute of Science and Technology in Medicine, Guy Hilton Research Centre, Keele University, Staffordshire, UK.
Keele University · GBUniversity of Liverpool · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/G010560/1Medical Research Council MR/P020941/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Magnetic ion channel activation technology uses superparamagnetic nanoparticles conjugated with targeting antibodies to apply mechanical force directly to stretch-activated ion channels on the cell surface, stimulating mechanotransduction and downstream processes. This technique has been reported to promote differentiation towards musculoskeletal cell types and enhance mineralisation. Previous studies have shown how mesenchymal stem cells injected into a pre-mineralised environment such as a foetal chick epiphysis, results in large-scale osteogenesis at the target site. However, the relative contributions of stem cells and surrounding host tissue has not been resolved, that is, are the mesenchymal stem cells solely responsible for the observed mineralisation or do mechanically stimulated mesenchymal stem cells also promote a host-tissue mineralisation response? To address this, we established a novel two-dimensional co-culture assay, which indicated that magnetic ion channel activation stimulation of human mesenchymal stem cells does not significantly promote migration but does enhance collagen deposition and mineralisation in the surrounding cells. We conclude that one of the important functions of injected human mesenchymal stem cells is to release biological factors (e.g., cytokines and microvesicles) which guide the surrounding tissue response, and that remote control of this signalling process using magnetic ion channel activation technology may be a useful way to both drive and regulate tissue regeneration and healing.

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Magnetic nanoparticlesmesenchymal stem cellparacrinestretch-activated ion channeltissue engineering

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PMID30397432
PMCPMC6207961
OpenAlexW2899504330

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