Polyglycolic acid-polylactic acid scaffold response to different progenitor cell in vitro cultures: a demonstrative and comparative X-ray synchrotron radiation phase-contrast microtomography study

Tissue Eng Part C Methods. 2014 Apr;20(4):308-16. doi: 10.1089/ten.TEC.2013.0213. Epub 2013 Sep 5.

Abstract

Spatiotemporal interactions play important roles in tissue development and function, especially in stem cell-seeded bioscaffolds. Cells interact with the surface of bioscaffold polymers and influence material-driven control of cell differentiation. In vitro cultures of different human progenitor cells, that is, endothelial colony-forming cells (ECFCs) from a healthy control and a patient with Kaposi sarcoma (an angioproliferative disease) and human CD133+ muscle-derived stem cells (MSH 133+ cells), were seeded onto polyglycolic acid-polylactic acid scaffolds. Three-dimensional (3D) images were obtained by X-ray phase-contrast microtomography (micro-CT) and processed with the Modified Bronnikov Algorithm. The method enabled high spatial resolution detection of the 3D structural organization of cells on the bioscaffold and evaluation of the way and rate at which cells modified the construct at different time points from seeding. The different cell types displayed significant differences in the proliferation rate. In conclusion, X-ray synchrotron radiation phase-contrast micro-CT analysis proved to be a useful and sensitive tool to investigate the spatiotemporal pattern of progenitor cell organization on a bioscaffold.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Cell Count
  • Cells, Cultured
  • Colony-Forming Units Assay
  • Endothelial Cells / cytology
  • Endothelial Cells / drug effects
  • Humans
  • Lactic Acid / chemistry
  • Lactic Acid / pharmacology*
  • Muscle Cells / cytology
  • Muscle Cells / drug effects
  • Polyglycolic Acid / chemistry
  • Polyglycolic Acid / pharmacology*
  • Polylactic Acid-Polyglycolic Acid Copolymer
  • Refractometry
  • Stem Cells / cytology*
  • Stem Cells / drug effects*
  • Synchrotrons*
  • Tissue Scaffolds / chemistry*
  • X-Ray Microtomography / methods*
  • X-Rays

Substances

  • Polylactic Acid-Polyglycolic Acid Copolymer
  • Polyglycolic Acid
  • Lactic Acid