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ArticleAdvanced healthcare materials2021

Anisometric Microstructures to Determine Minimal Critical Physical Cues Required for Neurite Alignment.

Sitara Vedaraman, Amaury Perez-Tirado, Tamas Haraszti, Jose Gerardo-Nava, Akihiro Nishiguchi, Laura De Laporte

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Article in Advanced healthcare materials, 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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Sitara VedaramanDWI-Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials, Forckenbeckstrasse 50, Aachen, 52074, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-7047-2386
Amaury Perez-TiradoDWI-Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials, Forckenbeckstrasse 50, Aachen, 52074, Germany.
Tamas HarasztiDWI-Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials, Forckenbeckstrasse 50, Aachen, 52074, Germany.
Jose Gerardo-NavaDWI-Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials, Forckenbeckstrasse 50, Aachen, 52074, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0915-5768
Akihiro NishiguchiBiomaterials Field, Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, 305-0044, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-3160-6385
Laura De LaporteDWI-Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials, Forckenbeckstrasse 50, Aachen, 52074, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-9438-0977

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Abstract

In nerve regeneration, scaffolds play an important role in providing an artificial extracellular matrix with architectural, mechanical, and biochemical cues to bridge the site of injury. Directed nerve growth is a crucial aspect of nerve repair, often introduced by engineered scaffolds imparting linear tracks. The influence of physical cues, determined by well-defined architectures, has been mainly studied for implantable scaffolds and is usually limited to continuous guiding features. In this report, the potential of short anisometric microelements in inducing aligned neurite extension, their dimensions, and the role of vertical and horizontal distances between them, is investigated. This provides crucial information to create efficient injectable 3D materials with discontinuous, in situ magnetically oriented microstructures, like the Anisogel. By designing and fabricating periodic, anisometric, discreet guidance cues in a high-throughput 2D in vitro platform using two-photon lithography techniques, the authors are able to decipher the minimal guidance cues required for directed nerve growth along the major axis of the microelements. These features determine whether axons grow unidirectionally or cross paths via the open spaces between the elements, which is vital for the design of injectable Anisogels for enhanced nerve repair.

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CuesNeuritesAxonsNerve RegenerationNeurogenesisTissue Scaffoldsanisometric microelementsmicropatterned substratesnerve regenerationneurite alignmenttwo-photon lithography

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PMCPMC11468524

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