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ArticleFrontiers in physiology2018

The Effect of Scaffold Modulus on the Morphology and Remodeling of Fetal Mesenchymal Stem Cells.

Abdul Jalil Rufaihah, Suganya Cheyyatraivendran, Muhammad Danial Mohd Mazlan, Kenrich Lim, Mark Seow Khoon Chong, Citra Nurfarah Zaini Mattar, Jerry Kok Yen Chan, Theodoros Kofidis, Dror Seliktar

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Article in Frontiers in physiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Abdul Jalil RufaihahDepartment of Surgery, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
Suganya CheyyatraivendranDepartment of Surgery, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
Muhammad Danial Mohd MazlanDepartment of Surgery, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
Kenrich LimDepartment of Surgery, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
Mark Seow Khoon ChongDivision of Bioengineering, School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.
Citra Nurfarah Zaini MattarDepartment of Obstretics and Gynaecology, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
Jerry Kok Yen ChanDepartment of Obstretics and Gynaecology, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
Theodoros KofidisDepartment of Surgery, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
Dror SeliktarNanoscience and Nanotechnology Initiative, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.

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Abstract

Hydrogel materials have been successfully used as matrices to explore the role of biophysical and biochemical stimuli in directing stem cell behavior. Here, we present our findings on the role of modulus in guiding bone marrow fetal mesenchymal stem cell (BMfMSC) fate determination using semi-synthetic hydrogels made from PEG-fibrinogen (PF). The BMfMSCs were cultivated in the PF for up to 2 weeks to study the influence of matrix modulus (i.e., cross-linking density of the PF) on BMfMSC survival, morphology and integrin expression. Both two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) culture conditions were employed to examine the BMfMSCs as single cells or as cell spheroids. The hydrogel modulus affected the rate of BMfMSC metabolic activity, the integrin expression levels and the cell morphology, both as single cells and as spheroids. The cell seeding density was also found to be an important parameter of the system in that high densities were favorable in facilitating more cell-to-cell contacts that favored higher metabolic activity. Our findings provide important insight about design of a hydrogel scaffold that can be used to optimize the biological response of BMfMSCs for various tissue engineering applications.

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biomaterialshydrogelmatrix stiffnessPEGylated fibrinogenscaffoldtissue engineering

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PMCPMC6308149

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