School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210094, China.
Department of Orthopaedics, Nanjing Jinling Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210002, China.
Adv Mater. 2024 Oct;36(41):e2406636. doi: 10.1002/adma.202406636. Epub 2024 Aug 15.
Bionic electrical stimulation (Bio-ES) aims to achieve personalized therapy and proprioceptive adaptation by mimicking natural neural signatures of the body, while current Bio-ES devices are reliant on complex sensing and computational simulation systems, thus often limited by the low-fidelity of simulated electrical signals, and failure of interface information interaction due to the mechanical mismatch between soft tissues and rigid electrodes. Here, the study presents a flexible and ultrathin self-sustainable bioelectronic patch (Bio-patch), which can self-adhere to the lesion area of organs and generate bionic electrical signals synchronized vagal nerve envelope in situ to implement Bio-ES. It allows adaptive adjustment of intensity, frequency, and waveform of the Bio-ES to fully meet personalized needs of tissue regeneration based on real-time feedback from the vagal neural controlled organs. With this foundation, the Bio-patch can effectively intervene with excessive fibrosis and microvascular stasis during the natural healing process by regulating the polarization time of macrophages, promoting the reconstruction of the tissue-engineered structure, and accelerating the repair of damaged liver and kidney. This work develops a practical approach to realize biomimetic electronic modulation of the growth and development of soft organs only using a multifunctional Bio-patch, which establishes a new paradigm for precise bioelectronic medicine.
仿生电刺激(Bio-ES)旨在通过模拟身体的自然神经特征来实现个性化治疗和本体感觉适应,而当前的 Bio-ES 设备依赖于复杂的传感和计算模拟系统,因此通常受到模拟电信号保真度低以及软组织结构和刚性电极之间的机械不匹配导致接口信息交互失败的限制。在这里,研究提出了一种灵活且超薄的自支撑生物电子贴片(Bio-patch),它可以自行粘附在器官的病变区域,并产生仿生电信号,以同步原位迷走神经包络来实现 Bio-ES。它允许根据迷走神经控制的器官的实时反馈来自适应调整 Bio-ES 的强度、频率和波形,以完全满足组织再生的个性化需求。在此基础上,Bio-patch 可以通过调节巨噬细胞的极化时间,促进组织工程结构的重建,并加速受损肝脏和肾脏的修复,有效干预自然愈合过程中的过度纤维化和微血管淤滞。这项工作开发了一种实用的方法,仅使用多功能 Bio-patch 即可实现对软器官生长和发育的仿生电子调节,为精确的生物电子医学建立了新的范例。