title: Aligned electrospun polymer fibres for skeletal muscle regeneration.
abstract: Skeletal muscle repair is often overlooked in surgical procedures and in serious burn victims. Creating a tissue-engineered skeletal muscle would not only provide a grafting material for these clinical situations, but could also be used as a valuable true-to-life research tool into diseases affecting muscle tissue. Electrospinning of the elastomer PLGA produced aligned fibres that had the correct topology to provide contact guidance for myoblast elongation and alignment. In addition, the electrospun scaffold required no surface modifications or incorporation of biologic material for adhesion, elongation, and differentiation of C2C12 murine myoblasts.
authors.affiliation: School of Materials, Biomaterials Group, The University of Manchester, Manchester, M1 7HS, UK.
authors.forename: K J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Aviss
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Gough
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Downes
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002448:Cell Adhesion; D002460:Cell Line; D049109:Cell Proliferation; D048430:Cell Shape; D019344:Lactic Acid / Q000737:chemistry / Q000627:therapeutic use; D051379:Mice; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000293:injuries / Q000502:physiology*; D032446:Myoblasts / Q000166:cytology*; D011100:Polyglycolic Acid / Q000737:chemistry / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000077182:Polylactic Acid-Polyglycolic Acid Copolymer; D012038:Regeneration; D044968:Regenerative Medicine / Q000379:methods; D023822:Tissue Engineering / Q000379:methods*; D014945:Wound Healing
chemical_list: D000077182:Polylactic Acid-Polyglycolic Acid Copolymer; D011100:Polyglycolic Acid; D019344:Lactic Acid