Issue 4, 2013

Evaluation of macroporous blood and plasma scaffolds for skeletal muscle tissue engineering

Abstract

The field of tissue engineering has a growing need for suitable scaffold materials to become attractive as a clinical therapy. To use a completely autologous construct to repair a damaged or diseased tissue is an appealing thought. As a model system, two types of scaffolds were prepared from biological fluids: blood and plasma. The prepared scaffolds formed a macroporous structure with elastic mechanical properties that were further evaluated with myoblast cell line (C2C12) cultivation and transplantation into mouse skeletal muscle. The cells were found to attach, proliferate, and migrate through all the different scaffolds. Moreover, the cells underwent myogenic differentiation, showing typical cell morphology aligned in a parallel fashion. An increased level of myogenin mRNA was found with the time of culture. Furthermore, myogenic markers MyoD1, desmin, myogenin and myosin, as well as β-dystroglycan and the laminin α2 chain, were found to be expressed. In vivo data indicated that the scaffolds degraded and were replaced with regenerated muscle fibres. We conclude that the two types of macroporous scaffolds based on blood or plasma have potential in the field of skeletal muscle tissue engineering.

Graphical abstract: Evaluation of macroporous blood and plasma scaffolds for skeletal muscle tissue engineering

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
28 May 2012
Accepted
30 Nov 2012
First published
03 Jan 2013

Biomater. Sci., 2013,1, 402-410

Evaluation of macroporous blood and plasma scaffolds for skeletal muscle tissue engineering

L. Elowsson, H. Kirsebom, V. Carmignac, B. Mattiasson and M. Durbeej, Biomater. Sci., 2013, 1, 402 DOI: 10.1039/C2BM00054G

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