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ArticleJournal of biomedical materials research. Part A2019

Peptide-modified, hyaluronic acid-based hydrogels as a 3D culture platform for neural stem/progenitor cell engineering.

Stephanie K Seidlits, Jesse Liang, Rebecca D Bierman, Alireza Sohrabi, Joshua Karam, Sandra M Holley, Carlos Cepeda, Christopher M Walthers

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Article in Journal of biomedical materials research. Part A, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.

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37citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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37 citing papers in PubMed, 88 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Stephanie K SeidlitsDepartment of Bioengineering, UCLA, Los Angels, California.
Jesse LiangDepartment of Bioengineering, UCLA, Los Angels, California.
Rebecca D BiermanDepartment of Bioengineering, UCLA, Los Angels, California.
Alireza SohrabiDepartment of Bioengineering, UCLA, Los Angels, California.
Joshua KaramDepartment of Bioengineering, UCLA, Los Angels, California.
Sandra M HolleyIntellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angels, California.
Carlos CepedaIntellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angels, California.
Christopher M WalthersDepartment of Bioengineering, UCLA, Los Angels, California.
La Jolla Bioengineering Institute · USIntel (United States) · USUniversity of Colorado Cancer Center · US

Funding

Training Grant in Genomic Analysis and InterpretationT32HG002536 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI Valerie A Arboleda, Harold Pimentel · 2002 to 2026
$8.6M
NHGRI NIH HHS T32 HG002536
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neural stem/progenitor cell (NS/PC)-based therapies have shown exciting potential for regeneration of the central nervous system (CNS) and NS/PC cultures represent an important resource for disease modeling and drug screening. However, significant challenges limiting clinical translation remain, such as generating large numbers of cells required for model cultures or transplantation, maintaining physiologically representative phenotypes ex vivo and directing NS/PC differentiation into specific fates. Here, we report that culture of human NS/PCs in 3D, hyaluronic acid (HA)-rich biomaterial microenvironments increased differentiation toward oligodendrocytes and neurons over 2D cultures on laminin-coated glass. Moreover, NS/PCs in 3D culture exhibited a significant reduction in differentiation into reactive astrocytes. Many NS/PC-derived neurons in 3D, HA-based hydrogels expressed synaptophysin, indicating synapse formation, and displayed electrophysiological characteristics of immature neurons. While inclusion of integrin-binding, RGD peptides into hydrogels resulted in a modest increase in numbers of viable NS/PCs, no combination of laminin-derived, adhesive peptides affected differentiation outcomes. Notably, 3D cultures of differentiating NS/PCs were maintained for at least 70 days in medium with minimal growth factor supplementation. In sum, results demonstrate the use of 3D, HA-based biomaterials for long-term expansion and differentiation of NS/PCs toward oligodendroglial and neuronal fates, while inhibiting astroglial fates. © 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Biomed Mater Res Part A: 107A: 704-718, 2019.

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Cell Culture TechniquesCell LineHumansHyaluronic AcidHydrogelsNeural Stem CellsOligopeptidesarginyl-glycyl-aspartic acidHyaluronic AcidHydrogelsOligopeptidesbiomaterialshyaluronic acidhydrogelsneural stem/progenitor cellstissue engineering

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PMID30615255
PMCPMC8862560
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