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Low molecular weight gels induced differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells
Yalong Hu1, Wenxia Gao, Fang Wu
1College of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou 325027, China. wenxiag@wzu.edu.cn.
Journal of Materials Chemistry. B
|April 9, 2020
Abstract:
Four low molecular weight gels (LMWGs) with different moduli were fabricated as scaffolds to investigate the differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). The MSCs differentiated to osteoblasts in rigid LMWGs and to chondrocytes in soft LMWGs. The critical modulus to induce the different differentiations was between 10 and 20 kPa.

