title: Material properties and bone marrow stromal cells response to in situ crosslinkable RGD-functionlized lactide-co-glycolide scaffolds.
abstract: In situ crosslinkable biomaterials with degradation profiles that can be tailored to a particular application are indispensable for treating irregularly shaped defects and for fabrication of shape-selective scaffolds. The objective of this work was to synthesize ultra low molecular weight functionalized PLA and PLGA macromers that can be grafted with bioactive peptides and crosslinked in situ to fabricate biodegradable functional scaffolds. In situ crosslinkable lactide-co-glycolide macromer (cMLGA; "c" for crosslinkable, "M" for macromer, and "LGA" for lactide-co-glycolide) was synthesized by anionic polymerization of lactide and glycolide monomers followed by condensation polymerization with fumaryl chloride. The cMLA (100% L-lactide) and cMLGA macromers formed porous crosslinked scaffolds with NVP as the crosslinker. The mass loss of the crosslinked cMLA and cMLGA was linear with incubation time in vitro (zero-order degradation) and the degradation rate depended on the ratio of lactide to glycolide. cMLGA scaffold with 1:1 lactide to glycolide ratio completely degraded after 4 weeks while the cMLA lost less than 40% of its initial mass after 35 weeks. When cMLA scaffold was functionalized with acrylated integrin-binding Ac-GRGD amino acid sequence, bone marrow stromal (BMS) cells attached and spread on the cMLA scaffold and exhibited focal-point cell adhesion. The mRNA expression levels of collagen-1alpha, osteonectin, and osteopontin for BMS cells seeded in the scaffolds with 1 and 5% Ac-GRGD were upregulated compared with those without Ac-GRGD. cMLGA is attractive as in situ crosslinkable macromer for fabrication of functional scaffolds with degradation characteristics that can be tailored to a particular application.
authors.affiliation: Biomimetic Materials and Tissue Engineering Laboratories, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA. jabbari@engr.sc.edu
authors.forename: Esmaiel
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Jabbari
authors.forename: Xuezhong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Mani T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Valarmathi
authors.forename: Alireza S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Sarvestani
authors.forename: Weijie
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Xu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001672:Biocompatible Materials / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D001854:Bone Marrow Cells / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism*; D002448:Cell Adhesion; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D003432:Cross-Linking Reagents / Q000737:chemistry; D019344:Lactic Acid / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D008422:Materials Testing; D015394:Molecular Structure; D008970:Molecular Weight; D009842:Oligopeptides / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D010012:Osteogenesis / Q000502:physiology; D011100:Polyglycolic Acid / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D000077182:Polylactic Acid-Polyglycolic Acid Copolymer; D016062:Porosity; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D017154:Stromal Cells / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism*; D054457:Tissue Scaffolds
chemical_list: D001672:Biocompatible Materials; D003432:Cross-Linking Reagents; D009842:Oligopeptides; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D000077182:Polylactic Acid-Polyglycolic Acid Copolymer; D011100:Polyglycolic Acid; D019344:Lactic Acid; C047981:arginyl-glycyl-aspartic acid