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ArticleAdvanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)2023

A Balance between Inter- and Intra-Microgel Mechanics Governs Stem Cell Viability in Injectable Dynamic Granular Hydrogels.

Cameron D Morley, Erika A Ding, Emily M Carvalho, Sanjay Kumar

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Article in Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Granular Hydrogels as Brittle Yield Stress Fluids.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Cameron D MorleyDepartment of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4333-3668
Erika A DingDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
Emily M CarvalhoDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
Sanjay KumarDepartment of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9996-4883

Funding

Biophysical Control of Cell Form and Function by Single Actomyosin Stress Fibers: Instrument SupplementR01GM122375 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI KUMAR, SANJAY · 2017 to 2025
$2.7M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM122375NIH HHS R01GM122375
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Injectable hydrogels are increasingly explored for the delivery of cells to tissue. These materials exhibit both liquid-like properties, protecting cells from mechanical stress during injection, and solid-like properties, providing a stable 3D engraftment niche. Many strategies for modulating injectable hydrogels tune liquid- and solid-like material properties simultaneously, such that formulation changes designed to improve injectability can reduce stability at the delivery site. The ability to independently tune liquid- and solid-like properties would greatly facilitate formulation development. Here, such a strategy is presented in which cells are ensconced in the pores between microscopic granular hyaluronic acid (HA) hydrogels (microgels), where elasticity is tuned with static covalent intra-microgel crosslinks and flowability with mechanosensitive adamantane-cyclodextrin (AC) inter-microgel crosslinks. Using the same AC-free microgels as a 3D printing support bath, the location of each cell is preserved as it exits the needle, allowing identification of the mechanism driving mechanical trauma-induced cell death. The microgel AC concentration is varied to find the threshold from microgel yielding- to AC interaction-dominated injectability, and this threshold is exploited to fabricate a microgel with better injection-protecting performance. This delivery strategy, and the balance between intra- and inter-microgel properties it reveals, may facilitate the development of new cell injection formulations.

Indexed as

HydrogelsMicrogelsCell SurvivalElasticityPrinting, Three-DimensionalStem CellsTissue EngineeringHydrogelsMicrogels3D bioprintingadamantane and cyclodextrininjectable granular hydrogelsmicrogelsyield stress materials

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PMID37653580
PMCPMC10841739

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