Shin Su Ryon, Zihlmann Claudio, Akbari Mohsen, Assawes Pribpandao, Cheung Louis, Zhang Kaizhen, Manoharan Vijayan, Zhang Yu Shrike, Yüksekkaya Mehmet, Wan Kai-Tak, Nikkhah Mehdi, Dokmeci Mehmet R, Tang Xiaowu Shirley, Khademhosseini Ali
Biomaterials Innovation Research Center, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Small. 2016 Jul;12(27):3677-89. doi: 10.1002/smll.201600178. Epub 2016 Jun 2.
Biomaterials currently used in cardiac tissue engineering have certain limitations, such as lack of electrical conductivity and appropriate mechanical properties, which are two parameters playing a key role in regulating cardiac cell behavior. Here, the myocardial tissue constructs are engineered based on reduced graphene oxide (rGO)-incorporated gelatin methacryloyl (GelMA) hybrid hydrogels. The incorporation of rGO into the GelMA matrix significantly enhances the electrical conductivity and mechanical properties of the material. Moreover, cells cultured on composite rGO-GelMA scaffolds exhibit better biological activities such as cell viability, proliferation, and maturation compared to ones cultured on GelMA hydrogels. Cardiomyocytes show stronger contractility and faster spontaneous beating rate on rGO-GelMA hydrogel sheets compared to those on pristine GelMA hydrogels, as well as GO-GelMA hydrogel sheets with similar mechanical property and particle concentration. Our strategy of integrating rGO within a biocompatible hydrogel is expected to be broadly applicable for future biomaterial designs to improve tissue engineering outcomes. The engineered cardiac tissue constructs using rGO incorporated hybrid hydrogels can potentially provide high-fidelity tissue models for drug studies and the investigations of cardiac tissue development and/or disease processes in vitro.
目前用于心脏组织工程的生物材料存在一定局限性,比如缺乏导电性和合适的机械性能,而这两个参数在调节心脏细胞行为方面起着关键作用。在此,基于掺入还原氧化石墨烯(rGO)的甲基丙烯酰化明胶(GelMA)混合水凝胶构建心肌组织工程支架。将rGO掺入GelMA基质可显著提高材料的导电性和机械性能。此外,与在GelMA水凝胶上培养的细胞相比,在复合rGO - GelMA支架上培养的细胞表现出更好的生物学活性,如细胞活力、增殖和成熟度。与在原始GelMA水凝胶以及具有相似机械性能和颗粒浓度的氧化石墨烯 - GelMA水凝胶片上培养的心肌细胞相比,在rGO - GelMA水凝胶片上培养的心肌细胞表现出更强的收缩性和更快的自发搏动速率。我们将rGO整合到生物相容性水凝胶中的策略有望广泛应用于未来的生物材料设计,以改善组织工程效果。使用掺入rGO的混合水凝胶构建的心脏组织工程支架有可能为药物研究以及体外心脏组织发育和/或疾病过程的研究提供高保真组织模型。