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J Tissue Eng. 2017 May 15;8:2041731417705615. doi: 10.1177/2041731417705615. eCollection 2017.

Bone and cartilage differentiation of a single stem cell population driven by material interface.

Journal of tissue engineering

Hannah Donnelly, Carol-Anne Smith, Paula E Sweeten, Nikolaj Gadegaard, Rm Dominic Meek, Matteo D'Este, Alvaro Mata, David Eglin, Matthew J Dalby

Affiliations

  1. Centre for Cell Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
  2. Division of Biomedical Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
  3. Department of Orthopaedics, Southern General Hospital, Glasgow, UK.
  4. AO Research Institute Davos, Davos, Switzerland.
  5. Institute of Bioengineering, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
  6. School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.

PMID: 28567273 PMCID: PMC5438107 DOI: 10.1177/2041731417705615

Abstract

Adult stem cells, such as mesenchymal stem cells, are a multipotent cell source able to differentiate towards multiple cell types. While used widely in tissue engineering and biomaterials research, they present inherent donor variability and functionalities. In addition, their potential to form multiple tissues is rarely exploited. Here, we combine an osteogenic nanotopography and a chondrogenic hyaluronan hydrogel with the hypothesis that we can make a complex tissue from a single multipotent cell source with the exemplar of creating a three-dimensional bone-cartilage boundary environment. Marrow stromal cells were seeded onto the topographical surface and the temperature gelling hydrogel laid on top. Cells that remained on the nanotopography spread and formed osteoblast-like cells, while those that were seeded into or migrated into the gel remained rounded and expressed chondrogenic markers. This novel, simple interfacial environment provides a platform for anisotropic differentiation of cells from a single source, which could ultimately be exploited to sort osteogenic and chondrogenic progenitor cells from a marrow stromal cell population and to develop a tissue engineered interface.

Keywords: Nanotopography; complex tissue engineering; endochondral tissue engineering; hydrogel; mesenchymal stem cells

Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of conflicting interests: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship and/or publication of this article.

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