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Fabrication and characterization of collagen-based injectable and self-crosslinkable hydrogels for cell encapsulation.
Colloids and Surfaces. B, Biointerfaces 2018 July 2
Injectable and self-crosslinkable hydrogels have drawn much attention for their potential application as cell delivery carriers to deliver cells to the injury site of arbitrary shape. In this study, injectable and self-crosslinkable hydrogels were designed and fabricated based on collagen type I (Col I) and activated chondroitin sulfate (CS-sNHS) by physical and chemical crosslinking without the addition of any catalysts. The physical properties of hydrogels, including mechanical properties, swelling and degradation properties, were investigated. The results demonstrated that the physical properties of hydrogels, especially the stiffness of hydrogels, were readily tuned by varying the degree of substitution (DS) of CS-sNHS without changing the concentration of collagen-based precursor. Chondrocytes were encapsulated into hydrogels to investigate the effects of hydrogels on the survival, proliferation and extracellular matrix (ECM) secretion of cells by FDA/PI staining, CCK-8 test and histological staining. The results suggested that all of these hydrogels supported the survival and ECM secretion of chondrocytes, while there was more ECM secretion around chondrocytes encapsulated in hydrogel Col I/CS-sNHS56% in which the DS of CS-sNHS was 56%. When the neutral precursor solution for hydrogel of Col I or Col I/CS-sNHS56% was subcutaneously injected into SD rats, hydrogels both displayed acceptable biocompatibility in vivo. These results imply that these injectable and self-crosslinkable hydrogels are suitable candidates for applications in the fields of cell delivery and tissue engineering.
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