Department of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Process and Environmental Engineering, Lodz University of Technology, 93-005 Lodz, Poland.
Department of Clinical Chemistry and Biochemistry, Medical University of Lodz, 92-215 Lodz, Poland.
Int J Mol Sci. 2024 May 30;25(11):5989. doi: 10.3390/ijms25115989.
Currently, an important group of biomaterials used in the research in the field of tissue engineering is thermosensitive chitosan hydrogels. Their main advantage is the possibility of introducing their precursors (sols) into the implantation site using a minimally invasive method-by injection. In this publication, the results of studies on the new chitosan structures in the form of thermosensitive hydrogels containing graphene oxide as a nanofiller are presented. These systems were prepared from chitosan lactate and chitosan chloride solutions with the use of a salt of pyrimidine nucleotide-uridine 5'-monophosphate disodium salt-as the cross-linking agent. In order to perform the characterization of the developed hydrogels, the sol-gel transition temperature of the colloidal systems was first determined based on rheological measurements. The hydrogels were also analyzed using FTIR spectroscopy and SEM. Biological studies assessed the cytotoxicity (resazurin assay) and genotoxicity (alkaline version of the comet assay) of the nanocomposite chitosan hydrogels against normal human BJ fibroblasts. The conducted research allowed us to conclude that the developed hydrogels containing graphene oxide are an attractive material for potential use as scaffolds for the regeneration of damaged tissues.
目前,在组织工程领域的研究中使用的一类重要的生物材料是温敏性壳聚糖水凝胶。它们的主要优势在于可以通过微创方法(注射)将其前体(溶胶)引入植入部位。在本出版物中,介绍了含有氧化石墨烯作为纳米填充剂的新型温敏性壳聚糖水凝胶结构的研究结果。这些系统是由乳酸壳聚糖和壳聚糖氯化物溶液制备的,使用嘧啶核苷酸-尿苷 5'-单磷酸二钠盐的盐作为交联剂。为了对所开发的水凝胶进行表征,首先基于流变学测量确定了胶体系统的溶胶-凝胶转变温度。还使用傅里叶变换红外光谱法和扫描电子显微镜对水凝胶进行了分析。生物研究评估了纳米复合壳聚糖水凝胶对正常人类 BJ 成纤维细胞的细胞毒性(resazurin 测定)和遗传毒性(彗星试验的碱性版本)。进行的研究得出结论,含有氧化石墨烯的开发水凝胶是一种有吸引力的材料,可潜在用作受损组织再生的支架。