| Literature DB >> 26033933 |
Donghwa Yun1, Young M Lee2, Melissa R Laughter1, Curt R Freed2, Daewon Park3.
Abstract
To find the first restorative treatment for spinal cord injury (SCI), researchers have focused on stem cell therapies. However, one obstacle is the lack of an implantable cell scaffold that can support efficient motor neuron (MN) differentiation and proliferation. We aimed to overcome this through the use of an RGD functionalized novel biomimetic polyurea, optimized to encourage efficient differentiation of MNs. Images taken after 14-days showed increased differentiation (∼40%) of hNSCs into MNs as well as increased cell count on the biomimetic polymer compared to PDL-Laminin coating, indicating that the RGD-polyurea provides a favorable microenvironment for hNSC survival, having promising implications for future SCI therapies.Entities:
Keywords: biomaterials; biomimetic polymer; motor neuron; neural stem cells; spinal cord injury
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Year: 2015 PMID: 26033933 PMCID: PMC4558270 DOI: 10.1002/mabi.201500066
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Macromol Biosci ISSN: 1616-5187 Impact factor: 4.979