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ArticleAdvanced healthcare materials2025

Soft Pneumatic Device Designed to Mimic the Periosteal Environment for Regulating the Fate of Mesenchymal Stem Cells.

Gwang-Bum Im, Jae Gyeong Lee, Hosub Lim, Jae-Won Lee, Hyun Su Park, Yongju Kim, Nauman Asad, Hak-Rin Kim, Jeong Jae Wie, Suk Ho Bhang

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Article in Advanced healthcare materials, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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10 authors.

Gwang-Bum ImSchool of Chemical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, 16419, Republic of Korea.
Jae Gyeong LeeDepartment of Organic and Nano Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, 04763, Republic of Korea.
Hosub LimDivision of Engineering in Medicine and Renal Division, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.
Jae-Won LeeSchool of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, 41566, Republic of Korea.
Hyun Su ParkSchool of Chemical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, 16419, Republic of Korea.
Yongju KimDepartment of Polymer Science and Engineering, Inha University, Incheon, 22212, Republic of Korea.
Nauman AsadSchool of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, 41566, Republic of Korea.
Hak-Rin KimSchool of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, 41566, Republic of Korea.
Jeong Jae WieDepartment of Organic and Nano Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, 04763, Republic of Korea.ORCID 0000-0001-7381-947X
Suk Ho BhangSchool of Chemical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, 16419, Republic of Korea.ORCID 0000-0003-3002-0590

Funding

Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology KEIT 20023353Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology NTIS 1415187291Korean Fund for Regenerative MedicineMinistry of Health & Welfare 21A0102L1-12Ministry of Health & Welfare RS-2023-00251343Ministry of Science and ICTNational Research Foundation RS-2024-00416272National Research Foundation of Korea NRF-2022R1A2C2002911
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Replicating the complex mechanical forces of muscle movement and fluid flow in in vitro cell culture systems is crucial for understanding cell differentiation and development. However, previous research focused on cell differentiation on static micro/nanotextures without a force field or flat 2-dimensional substrates under a continuous in-plane mechanical force. In this study, cell differentiation is reported using a spatial geometric platform that can periodically modulate complex mechanical forces through a custom-made soft pneumatic device (SPD) to mimic the interfaces between periosteum and interstitial fluid. To elucidate fluidic dynamics and cell fates relevant to bone physiology, the platform exhibited distinct functional responses based on mechanical force levels: low mechanotransduction induced mesenchymal stem/progenitor cells differentiation into osteoprogenitor cells (≈1.5-fold increase in osteo-differentiation), while high mechanotransduction resulted in structural disruptions resembling cell detachment without protein degradation (≈2-fold increase in effective cell detachment). Numerical simulations of SPD elucidated the principal mechanical components for programmable cell differentiation and detachment by deconvoluting the in-plane and out-of-plane mechanical forces of the SPD complex mode. This study offers comprehensive and novel insights into the correlation between mechanical forces and cell differentiation, recovery, and injury in organisms.

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Cell DifferentiationMesenchymal Stem CellsPeriosteumAnimalsCell Culture TechniquesHumansMechanotransduction, CellularOsteogenesisMSCosteogenesisperiosteumsoft materials

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PMID40123288
PMCPMC12147992

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