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Area of Science:

  • Biomaterials Science
  • Neuroscience
  • Regenerative Medicine

Background:

  • Adult central nervous system axons have poor regeneration capacity after spinal cord injury, leading to disorganized growth.
  • Current methods using agarose hydrogels with neurotrophic factor-secreting cells are cumbersome for sustained release.
  • Existing hydrogel loading techniques fail to provide sustained protein release from templated agarose scaffolds.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a method for sustained release of proteins from agarose hydrogels for potential spinal cord injury regeneration.
  • To investigate the efficacy of pH-responsive layer-by-layer thin films for controlled protein delivery.
  • To establish a new strategy for delivering neurotrophic factors like brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) for axon growth.

Main Methods:

  • Fabrication of pH-responsive H-bonded poly(ethylene glycol)/poly(acrylic acid)/protein hybrid layer-by-layer (LbL) thin films over agarose scaffolds.
  • Loading of model protein (lysozyme) into the LbL films.
  • Assessment of sustained protein release from the agarose hydrogel under physiological conditions for over four weeks.
  • Evaluation of the biological activity of the released protein.

Main Results:

  • The LbL thin films successfully provided sustained release of lysozyme from the agarose hydrogel for more than four weeks.
  • The released lysozyme demonstrated biological activity, although activity decreased over later time points.
  • This represents the first demonstration of month-long sustained protein release from an agarose hydrogel using this method.

Conclusions:

  • Layer-by-layer thin films offer a viable strategy for sustained protein release from agarose hydrogels, separate from the hydrogel fabrication.
  • This approach overcomes limitations of current methods and provides a promising avenue for delivering neurotrophic factors for spinal cord injury repair.
  • Further research is needed to optimize protein activity over extended release periods for enhanced axon regeneration.