title: Fibroblast reaction to island topography: changes in cytoskeleton and morphology with time.
abstract: In order to develop next-generation tissue engineering materials, the understanding of cell responses to novel material surfaces needs to be better understood. Topography presents powerful cues for cells, and it is becoming clear that cells will react to nanometric, as well as micrometric, scale surface features. Polymer-demixing of polystyrene and polybromostyrene has been found to produce nanoscale islands of reproducible height, and is very cheap and fast compared to techniques such as electron beam lithography. This study observed temporal changes in cell morphology and actin and tubulin cytoskeleton using scanning electron and fluorescence microscopy. The results show large differences in cell response to 95 nm high islands from 5 min to 3 weeks of culture. The results also show a change in cell response from initial fast organisation of cytoskeleton in reaction to the islands, through to lack of cell spreading and low recruitment of cell numbers on the islands.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Cell Engineering, Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Joseph Black Building, Glasgow, Scotland G12 8QQ, UK. m.dalby@bio.gla.ac.uk
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Dalby
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Childs
authors.forename: M O
authors.initials: MO
authors.lastname: Riehle
authors.forename: H J H
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Johnstone
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Affrossman
authors.forename: A S G
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Curtis
mesh_terms: D000199:Actins / Q000032:analysis; D002460:Cell Line; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D003599:Cytoskeleton / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D005347:Fibroblasts / Q000166:cytology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D006801:Humans; D007700:Kinetics; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning / Q000379:methods; D011137:Polystyrenes; D011554:Pseudopodia / Q000648:ultrastructure; D013499:Surface Properties; D019098:Telomerase / Q000378:metabolism; D023822:Tissue Engineering / Q000379:methods; D014404:Tubulin / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D000199:Actins; D011137:Polystyrenes; D014404:Tubulin; D019098:Telomerase