Localized committed differentiation of neural stem cells based on the topographical regulation effects of TiO2 nanostructured ceramics

Nanoscale. 2016 Jul 21;8(27):13186-91. doi: 10.1039/c6nr01874b. Epub 2016 Jun 27.

Abstract

In this study, a porous-flat TiO2 micropattern was fabricated with flat and nanoporous TiO2 ceramics for investigating the effect of topography on neural stem cell (NSC) differentiation. This finding demonstrates that localized committed differentiation could be achieved in one system by integrating materials with different topographies.