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Ye L, Takagi T, Tu C, Hagiwara A, Geng X, Feng Z. The performance of heparin modified poly(ε-caprolactone) small diameter tissue engineering vascular graft in canine-A long-term pilot experiment in vivo. J Biomed Mater Res A 2021; 109:2493-2505. [PMID: 34096176 DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.37243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2020] [Revised: 05/12/2021] [Accepted: 05/28/2021] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Long-term in vivo observation in large animal model is critical for evaluating the potential of small diameter tissue engineering vascular graft (SDTEVG) in clinical application, but is rarely reported. In this study, a SDTEVG is fabricated by the electrospinning of poly(ε-caprolactone) and subsequent heparin modification. SDTEVG is implanted into canine's abdominal aorta for 511 days in order to investigate its clinical feasibility. An active and robust remodeling process was characterized by a confluent endothelium, macrophage infiltrate, extracellular matrix deposition and remodeling on the explanted graft. The immunohistochemical and immunofluorescence analysis further exhibit the regeneration of endothelium and smooth muscle layer on tunica intima and tunica media, respectively. Thus, long-term follow-up reveals viable neovessel formation beyond graft degradation. Furthermore, the von Kossa staining exhibits no occurrence of calcification. However, although no TEVG failure or rupture happens during the follow-up, the aneurysm is found by both Doppler ultrasonic and gross observation. Consequently, as-prepared TEVG shows promising potential in vascular tissue engineering if it can be appropriately strengthened to prevent the occurrence of aneurysm.
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Affiliation(s)
- Lin Ye
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China.,Department of Medical Life System, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Medical Life System, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
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- Department of Medical Life System, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China.,Beijing Key Laboratory of Construction Tailorable Advanced Functional Materials and Green Applications, Beijing, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China.,Beijing Key Laboratory of Construction Tailorable Advanced Functional Materials and Green Applications, Beijing, China
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Zhang Y, He J, Chen H, Xiong C. A new hydrophilic biodegradable ureteral stent restrain encrustation both in vitro and in vivo. J Biomater Appl 2021; 35:720-731. [PMID: 32799701 DOI: 10.1177/0885328220949376] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Ureteral stents have been widely used as biomedical devices to treat some urological diseases for several decades. However, the encrustation complications hamper the long-time clinical use of the ureteral stents. In this work, a new type of biodegradable material for the ureteral stents, methoxypoly(ethylene glycol)-block-poly(L-lactide-ran-Ɛ-caprolactone) (mPEG-PLACL), is evaluated to overcome this problem. The results show that the hydrophilicity and degradation rate in artificial urine of mPEG-PLACL are both significantly increased. It is worth noting that the mPEG-PLACL shows a lower amount of encrustation after immersing the stents in the dynamic urinary extracorporeal circulation (DUEC) model for 7 days. In addition, 71% Ca and 92% Mg are inhibited in vivo by quantitative analysis. Pathological analysis exhibit that the mPEG-PLACL cause less diffuse mucosal hyperplasia after 7 weeks of implantation. All the results indicate that this new type of biodegradable material had an excellent potential for the ureteral stents in the future.
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- Yu Zhang
- 26444Chengdu Institute of Organic Chemistry CAS, Chengdu, China
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- 26444Chengdu Institute of Organic Chemistry CAS, Chengdu, China
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- 26444Chengdu Institute of Organic Chemistry CAS, Chengdu, China
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- 26444Chengdu Institute of Organic Chemistry CAS, Chengdu, China
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Cao J, Geng X, Wen J, Li Q, Ye L, Zhang A, Feng Z, Guo L, Gu Y. The penetration and phenotype modulation of smooth muscle cells on surface heparin modified poly(ɛ-caprolactone) vascular scaffold. J Biomed Mater Res A 2017. [PMID: 28643432 DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.36144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
Abstract
The tubular porous poly(ɛ-caprolactone) (PCL) scaffold was fabricated by electrospinning. After then, the scaffold's surface was firstly eroded by hexyldiamine to endow amine group, and heparin was covalently grafted to the surface to get surface heparin modified scaffold (ShPCL scaffold). It was found that ShPCL scaffold can induce smooth muscle cells (SMCs) to penetrate the scaffold surface, while the SMCs cannot penetrate the surface of PCL scaffold. Subsequently, the rabbit SMCs were seeded on the ShPCL scaffold and cultured for 14 days. It was found the expression of α-smooth muscle actin in ShPCL scaffold maintained much higher level than that in culture plate, which implied the SMC differentiation in ShPCL scaffold. Furthermore, the immunefluorescence staining of the cross-sections of ShPCL scaffold exhibited the expression of calponin in ShPCL scaffold can be detected after 7 and 14 days, whereas the expression of smooth muscle myosin heavy chain can also be detected at 14 days. These results proved that penetrated SMCs preferably differentiated in to contractile phenotype. The successful SMC penetration and the contractile phenotype expression implied ShPCL scaffold is a suitable candidate for regenerating smooth muscle layer in vascular tissue engineering. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Biomed Mater Res Part A: 105A: 2806-2815, 2017.
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- Jie Cao
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China.,Beijing Key Laboratory of Construction Tailorable Advanced Functional Materials and Green Applications, Beijing, 100081, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China.,Beijing Key Laboratory of Construction Tailorable Advanced Functional Materials and Green Applications, Beijing, 100081, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China.,Beijing Key Laboratory of Construction Tailorable Advanced Functional Materials and Green Applications, Beijing, 100081, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China.,Beijing Key Laboratory of Construction Tailorable Advanced Functional Materials and Green Applications, Beijing, 100081, China
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- Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100053, China
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- Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100053, China
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Ye L, Cao J, Chen L, Geng X, Zhang AY, Guo LR, Gu YQ, Feng ZG. The fabrication of double layer tubular vascular tissue engineering scaffold via coaxial electrospinning and its 3D cell coculture. J Biomed Mater Res A 2015; 103:3863-71. [PMID: 26123627 DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.35531] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2015] [Revised: 05/24/2015] [Accepted: 06/10/2015] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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A continuous electrospinning technique was applied to fabricate double layer tubular tissue engineering vascular graft (TEVG) scaffold. The luminal layer was made from poly(ɛ-caprolac-tone)(PCL) ultrafine fibers via common single axial electrospinning followed by the outer layer of core-shell structured nanofibers via coaxial electrospinning. For preparing the outer layernano-fibers, the PCL was electrospun into the shell and both bovine serum albumin (BSA) and tetrapeptide val-gal-pro-gly (VAPG) were encapsulated into the core. The core-shell structure in the outer layer fibers was observed by transmission electron microscope (TEM). The in vitro release tests exhibited the sustainable release behavior of BSA and VAPG so that they provided a better cell growth environment in the interior of tubular scaffold wall. The in vitro culture of smooth muscle cells (SMCs) demonstrated their potential to penetrate into the scaffold wall for the 3D cell culture. Subsequently, 3D cell coculture was conducted. First, SMCs were seeded on the luminal surface of the scaffold and cultured for 5 days, and then endothelial cells (ECs) were also seeded on the luminal surface and cocultured with SMCs for another 2 days. After stained with antibodies, 3D cell distribution on the scaffold was revealed by confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) where ECs were mainly located on the luminal surface whereas SMCs penetrated into the surface and distributed inside the scaffold wall. This double layer tubular scaffold with 3D cell distribution showed the promise to develop it into a novel TEVG for clinical trials in the near future.
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- Lin Ye
- Department of Materials Physics and Chemistry, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China
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- Department of Materials Physics and Chemistry, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China
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- Department of Materials Physics and Chemistry, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China
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- Department of Materials Physics and Chemistry, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China
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- Department of Materials Physics and Chemistry, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China
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- Vascular Surgery, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100053, China
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- Vascular Surgery, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100053, China
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- Department of Materials Physics and Chemistry, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China
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Chen M, Li YF, Besenbacher F. Electrospun nanofibers-mediated on-demand drug release. Adv Healthc Mater 2014; 3:1721-32. [PMID: 24891134 DOI: 10.1002/adhm.201400166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2014] [Revised: 05/06/2014] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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A living system has a complex and accurate regulation system with intelligent sensor-processor-effector components to enable the release of vital bioactive substances on demand at a specific site and time. Stimuli-responsive polymers mimic biological systems in a crude way where an external stimulus results in a change in conformation, solubility, or alternation of the hydrophilic/hydrophobic balance, and consequently release of a bioactive substance. Electrospinning is a straightforward and robust method to produce nanofibers with the potential to incorporate drugs in a simple, rapid, and reproducible process. This feature article emphasizes an emerging area using an electrospinning technique to generate biomimetic nanofibers as drug delivery devices that are responsive to different stimuli, such as temperature, pH, light, and electric/magnetic field for controlled release of therapeutic substances. Although at its infancy, the mimicry of these stimuli-responsive nanofibers to the function of the living systems includes both the fibrous structural feature and bio-regulation function as an on demand drug release depot. The electrospun nanofibers with extracellular matrix morphology intrinsically guide cellular drug uptake, which will be highly desired to translate the promise of drug delivery for the clinical success.
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- Menglin Chen
- Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center; Aarhus University; DK-8000 Aarhus Denmark
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- Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center; Aarhus University; DK-8000 Aarhus Denmark
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Ye L, Wu X, Duan H, Geng X, Chen B, Gu Y, Zhang A, Zhang J, Feng Z. The
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biocompatibility evaluation of heparin–poly(ε‐caprolactone) conjugate for vascular tissue engineering scaffolds. J Biomed Mater Res A 2012; 100:3251-8. [PMID: 22733560 DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.34270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2012] [Revised: 04/09/2012] [Accepted: 05/14/2012] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Lin Ye
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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- Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100053, China
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- The Affiliated People's Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan 030012, China
- Shanxi Provicial People's Hospital, Taiyuan 030012, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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- Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100053, China
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- Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100053, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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- Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100053, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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Ye L, Wu X, Mu Q, Chen B, Duan Y, Geng X, Gu Y, Zhang A, Zhang J, Feng ZG. Heparin-Conjugated PCL Scaffolds Fabricated by Electrospinning and Loaded with Fibroblast Growth Factor 2. JOURNAL OF BIOMATERIALS SCIENCE-POLYMER EDITION 2012; 22:389-406. [PMID: 20566037 DOI: 10.1163/092050610x487710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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- Lin Ye
- a School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, P. R. China
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- b Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100053, P. R. China
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- c School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, P. R. China
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- d Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100053, P. R. China
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- e Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100053, P. R. China
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- f School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, P. R. China
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- g Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100053, P. R. China
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- h School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, P. R. China
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- i Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100053, P. R. China
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- j School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, P. R. China
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Initiator-free photocrosslinking of electrospun biodegradable polyester fiber based tubular scaffolds and their cell affinity for vascular tissue engineering. CHINESE JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE 2010. [DOI: 10.1007/s10118-010-9188-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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