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HepG2 and human healthy hepatocyte in vitro culture and co-culture in PCL electrospun platforms.
Fasolino, I; Guarino, V; Marrese, M; Cirillo, V; Vallifuoco, M; Tamma, M L; Vassallo, V; Bracco, A; Calise, F; Ambrosio, L.
Afiliação
  • Fasolino I; Institute of Polymers, Composites and Biomaterials, National Research Council of Italy, Mostra d'Oltremare, Pad. 20, V. le Kennedy 54, I-80125, Naples, Italy.
Biomed Mater ; 13(1): 015017, 2017 12 20.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28901955
The discovery of new drugs to treat pathological cells in the case of aggressive liver primary cancer is imposing the identification of high-throughput screening systems to predict the in vivo response of new therapeutic molecules, in order to reduce current use of animals and drug testing costs. Recently, micro/nanostructured scaffolds have been adopted to reproduce the hepatic microenvironment due to their higher similarity to the biological niche with respect to the traditional two-dimensional culture plate, so providing novel in vitro models for reliably understanding molecular mechanisms related to cancer cells activity. Herein, we propose the study of electrospun scaffolds made of polycaprolactone as in vitro model that can mimic the morphological organization of native extracellular matrix and the co-culture of hepatic cell lines-i.e., HepG2, human healthy hepatocytes (HHH). The micro- and nano-scale morphological features of fibers with diameter equal to (3.22 ± 0.42) µm and surface roughness of (17.84 ± 4.43) nm-allow the reproduction of the in vivo scenario influencing the adhesion and proliferation rate of the cultured cells. A much lower proliferation rate is observed for the HepG2 cells compared to the HHH cells, when cultured on the fibrous scaffolds over a time course of 4 weeks. Moreover, results on oxidative stress mechanisms indicate an antioxidant effect of fibers mainly in the case of co-colture, thus suggesting a promising use as new in vitro models to explore alternative therapeutic strategies in hepatocarcinoma treatment.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Temas: Geral Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Hepatócitos / Engenharia Tecidual / Matriz Extracelular / Alicerces Teciduais Tipo de estudo: Prognostic_studies Limite: Humans Idioma: En Revista: Biomed Mater Assunto da revista: ENGENHARIA BIOMEDICA Ano de publicação: 2017 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Itália

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Temas: Geral Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Hepatócitos / Engenharia Tecidual / Matriz Extracelular / Alicerces Teciduais Tipo de estudo: Prognostic_studies Limite: Humans Idioma: En Revista: Biomed Mater Assunto da revista: ENGENHARIA BIOMEDICA Ano de publicação: 2017 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Itália