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Engineering a Bilayered Hydrogel to Control ASC Differentiation
Published on: May 25, 2012
Directing stem cell fate by controlling the affinity and density of ligand-receptor interactions at the biomaterials
Kristopher A Kilian1, Milan Mrksich
1Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, USA.
Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|April 17, 2012
Abstract:
Sticky situation: the differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells can be influenced by the affinity and density of an immobilized ligand for the integrin receptors. Cells adherent to monolayers that present the high-affinity, cyclic-RGD peptide (left) show increased expression of osteogenic markers, while cells on monolayers presenting the lower-affinity, linear-RGD peptide (right) express early markers of myogenesis at a high density and neurogenesis at a low density of the ligand.
