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ArticleAdvanced healthcare materials2022

Nucleic Acid Delivery from Granular Hydrogels.

Evan Kurt, Tatiana Segura

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Article in Advanced healthcare materials, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 34 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Delivery of Nucleic Acids for Vascular Tissue Engineering Applications.Regenerative engineering and translational medicine · 2025
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  8. Granular Hydrogels for Harnessing the Immune Response.Advanced healthcare materials · 2024
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  9. Gene Delivery From Granular Scaffolds for Tunable Biologics Manufacturing.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Evan KurtDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5402-373X
Tatiana SeguraDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1569-8686
Duke University · US

Funding

University Training Program in Biomolecular & Tissue EngineeringT32GM008555 · NIGMS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI GERSBACH, CHARLES A. · 1994 to 2021
$8.1M
VEGF Ligand Presentation and Therapeutic AngiogenesisR01NS079691 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI SEGURA, TATIANA · 2012 to 2024
$4.0M
Biomaterials to promote synapse formation after strokeR01NS112940 · NINDS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI Tatiana Segura · 2020 to 2026
$3.9M
University Training Program in Biomolecular and Tissue EngineeringT32GM144291 · NIGMS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI Charles A. Gersbach, Tatiana Segura · 2022 to 2026
$2.6M
Engineering Injectable Microporous Hydrogels for Brain RepairR01NS094599 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI SEGURA, TATIANA · 2016 to 2019
$1.5M
NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008555NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM144291NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS079691NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS094599NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS112940
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nucleic acid delivery has applications ranging from tissue engineering to vaccine development to infectious disease. Cationic polymer condensed nucleic acids are used with surface-coated porous scaffolds and are able to promote long-term gene expression. However, due to surface loading of the scaffold, there is a limit to the amount of nucleic acid that can be loaded, resulting in decreasing expression rate over time. In addition, surface-coated scaffolds are generally non-injectable. Here, it is demonstrated that cationic polymer condensed nucleic acids can be effectively loaded into injectable granular hydrogel scaffolds by stabilizing the condensed nucleic acid into a lyophilized powder, loading the powder into a bulk hydrogel, and then fragmenting the loaded hydrogel. The resulting hydrogel microparticles contain non-aggregated nucleic acid particles, can be annealed post-injection to result in an injectable microporous hydrogel, and can effectively deliver nucleic acids to embedded cells with a constant expression rate. Due to the nature of granular hydrogels, it is demonstrated that mixtures of loaded and unloaded particles and spatially resolved gene expression can be easily achieved. The ability to express genes long term from an injectable porous hydrogel will further open the applications of nucleic acid delivery.

Indexed as

HydrogelsNucleic AcidsBiocompatible MaterialsPorosityTissue EngineeringBiocompatible MaterialsHydrogelsNucleic AcidsDNA/PEI particlesFLIP hydrogelsgene deliverynonviralsporous

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PMID34742164
PMCPMC8810690
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