Improving the glial differentiation of human Schwann-like adipose-derived stem cells with graphene oxide substrates

Autor:	Verre, Andrea Francesco, Faroni, Alessandro, Iliut, Maria, Silva, Claudio, Muryn, Cristopher, Reid, Adam J, Vijayaraghavan, Aravind
Rok vydání:	2017
Předmět:	Physics - Biological Physics 92
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	There is urgent clinical need to improve the clinical outcome of peripheral nerve injury. Many efforts are directed towards the fabrication of bioengineered conduits, which could deliver stem cells to the site of injury to promote and guide peripheral nerve regeneration. The aim of this study is to assess if graphene and related nanomaterials can be useful in the fabrication of such conduits. A comparison is made between GO and reduced GO substrates. Our results show that the graphene substrates are highly biocompatible, and the reduced GO substrates are more effective in ncreasing the gene expression of the biomolecules involved in the regeneration process compared to the other substrates studied. Comment: 15 pages, 3 figures
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1706.09110 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv