abstract
Cardiovascular diseases are a major global cause of morbidity and mortality, and they are often characterized by cardiomyocytes dead that ultimately leads to myocardial ischemia (MI). This condition replaces functional cardiac tissue with fibrotic scar tissue compromising heart function. Injectable systems for the in situ delivery of cells or molecules to assist during tissue repair have emerged as promising approaches for tissue engineering, particularly for myocardial repair. Methacryloyl platelet lysates (PLMA) have been employed for constructing full human-based 3D cell culture matrices and demonstrated potential for xeno-free applications. In this study, we propose using PLMA to produce microparticles (MPs) serving as anchors for cardiac and endothelial cells and ultimately as injectable systems for cardiac tissue repair. The herein reported PLMA MPs were produced by droplet microfluidics and showed great properties for cell attachment. More importantly, it is possible to show the capacity of PLMA MPs to serve as cell microcarriers even in the absence of animal-derived serum supplementation in the culture media. Human-derived methacryloyl platelet lysates (PLMA) have been employed for constructing full human-based 3D cell culture matrices and demonstrated potential for xeno-free applications.
keywords
DELIVERY; MODEL
subject category
Materials Science
authors
Santos, SC; Custódio, CA; Mano, JF
our authors
Catarina de Almeida Custódio
Assistant Researcher
João Mano
Full professorProjects
Collaboratory for Emerging Technologies, CoLab (EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES)
CICECO - Aveiro Institute of Materials (UIDB/50011/2020)
CICECO - Aveiro Institute of Materials (UIDP/50011/2020)
Associated Laboratory CICECO-Aveiro Institute of Materials (LA/P/0006/2020)
acknowledgements
Sara C. Santos and Catarina A. Custodio acknowledge the financial support given by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) for the doctoral grant SFRH/BD/144520/2019 and individual contract 10.54499/2020.01647.CEECIND/CP1589/CT0034, respectively. The authors also acknowledge the project CICECO - Aveiro Institute of Materials, UIDB/50011/2020 (https://doi.org/10.54499/UIDB/50011/2020), UIDP/50011/2020 (https://doi.org/10.54499/UIDP/50011/2020) & LA/P/0006/2020 (https://doi.org/10.54499/LA/P/0006/2020), financed by national funds through the FCT/MCTES (PIDDAC). This work was also supported by the project REBORN, ERC-2019-ADG-883370 (DOI 10.3030/883370).