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ArticleMembranes2021

Nano- and Micro-Porous Chitosan Membranes for Human Epidermal Stratification and Differentiation.

Simona Salerno, Maria Penelope De Santo, Enrico Drioli, Loredana De Bartolo

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Article in Membranes, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 39% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 10 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 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Simona SalernoInstitute on Membrane Technology, National Research Council of Italy (CNR-ITM), Via P. Bucci, cubo 17/C, 87036 Rende, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-8178-8837
Maria Penelope De SantoDepartment of Physics and CNR-Nanotec, University of Calabria, Via P. Bucci, cubo 31/C, 87036 Rende, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-6556-3611
Enrico DrioliInstitute on Membrane Technology, National Research Council of Italy (CNR-ITM), Via P. Bucci, cubo 17/C, 87036 Rende, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-1092-5368
Loredana De BartoloInstitute on Membrane Technology, National Research Council of Italy (CNR-ITM), Via P. Bucci, cubo 17/C, 87036 Rende, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-3774-9114
National Research Council · ITIstituto Nanoscienze · ITNanjing Tech University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The creation of partial or complete human epidermis represents a critical aspect and the major challenge of skin tissue engineering. This work was aimed at investigating the effect of nano- and micro-structured CHT membranes on human keratinocyte stratification and differentiation. To this end, nanoporous and microporous membranes of chitosan (CHT) were prepared by phase inversion technique tailoring the operational parameters in order to obtain nano- and micro-structured flat membranes with specific surface properties. Microporous structures with different mean pore diameters were created by adding and dissolving, in the polymeric solution, polyethylene glycol (PEG Mw 10,000 Da) as porogen, with a different CHT/PEG ratio. The developed membranes were characterized and assessed for epidermal construction by culturing human keratinocytes on them for up to 21 days. The overall results demonstrated that the membrane surface properties strongly affect the stratification and terminal differentiation of human keratinocytes. In particular, human keratinocytes adhered on nanoporous CHT membranes, developing the structure of the corneum epidermal top layer, characterized by low thickness and low cell proliferation. On the microporous CHT membrane, keratinocytes formed an epidermal basal lamina, with high proliferating cells that stratified and differentiated over time, migrating along the

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cell-material interactionschitosandifferentiationepidermiskeratinocytesmembranesmicroporousnanoporous

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PMID34071873
PMCPMC8227018
OpenAlexW3165316421

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