Nanoscale-Textured Tantalum Surfaces for Mammalian Cell Alignment.

Autor:	Moussa HI; Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada. h2moussa@uwaterloo.ca.; Waterloo Institute of Nanotechnology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada. h2moussa@uwaterloo.ca., Logan M; Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada. m3logan@uwaterloo.ca.; Waterloo Institute of Nanotechnology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada. m3logan@uwaterloo.ca., Wong K; Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada. kingsley.wong@edu.uwaterloo.ca.; Waterloo Institute of Nanotechnology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada. kingsley.wong@edu.uwaterloo.ca., Rao Z; Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada. z2rao@edu.uwaterloo.ca.; Waterloo Institute of Nanotechnology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada. z2rao@edu.uwaterloo.ca., Aucoin MG; Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada. marc.aucoin@uwaterloo.ca.; Waterloo Institute of Nanotechnology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada. marc.aucoin@uwaterloo.ca., Tsui TY; Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada. tttsui@uwaterloo.ca.; Waterloo Institute of Nanotechnology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada. tttsui@uwaterloo.ca.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Micromachines [Micromachines (Basel)] 2018 Sep 13; Vol. 9 (9). Date of Electronic Publication: 2018 Sep 13.
DOI:	10.3390/mi9090464
Abstrakt:	Tantalum is one of the most important biomaterials used for surgical implant devices. However, little knowledge exists about how nanoscale-textured tantalum surfaces affect cell morphology. Mammalian (Vero) cell morphology on tantalum-coated comb structures was studied using high-resolution scanning electron microscopy and fluorescence microscopy. These structures contained parallel lines and trenches with equal widths in the range of 0.18 to 100 μm. Results showed that as much as 77% of adherent cell nuclei oriented within 10° of the line axes when deposited on comb structures with widths smaller than 10 μm. However, less than 20% of cells exhibited the same alignment performance on blanket tantalum films or structures with line widths larger than 50 μm. Two types of line-width-dependent cell morphology were observed. When line widths were smaller than 0.5 μm, nanometer-scale pseudopodia bridged across trench gaps without contacting the bottom surfaces. In contrast, pseudopodia structures covered the entire trench sidewalls and the trench bottom surfaces of comb structures with line-widths larger than 0.5 μm. Furthermore, results showed that when a single cell simultaneously adhered to multiple surface structures, the portion of the cell contacting each surface reflected the type of morphology observed for cells individually contacting the surfaces.
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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