Protein covalently conjugated SU-8 surface for the enhancement of mesenchymal stem cell adhension and proliferation

Cell growing behavior is significantly dependent on the surface chemistry of materials. SU-8 is a high contrast, epoxy based negative photoresist. Its abilities of excellent thermal and mechanical stability make it popular to fabricate semi-conductor devices, microfluidics, microelectromechanical sy...

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Main Author: Bao, Jingnan
Other Authors: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/61128
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description Cell growing behavior is significantly dependent on the surface chemistry of materials. SU-8 is a high contrast, epoxy based negative photoresist. Its abilities of excellent thermal and mechanical stability make it popular to fabricate semi-conductor devices, microfluidics, microelectromechanical systems, as well as most biocompatible materials. But native SU-8 is also highly hydrophobic and has a low surface energy, which make it not favorable for cell culture, and cell attachment. Although physical adsorption of proteins could enhance the cell adhesion, the effect is not durable. In this work, SU-8 surface chemistry is modified by immobilizing fibronectin (FN) and collagen type I (COL I) covalently using (3-aminopropyl)triethoxy silane (APTES), and cross-linker glutaraldehyde (GA) to increase surface biofunctionality. The effectiveness of this surface treatment to improve the adhesion and viability of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) is investigated. It is found that the wettability of SU-8 surface can be significantly increased by this chemical modification. In addition, the spreading area of MSCs increases on the SU-8 surfaces with covalently conjugated matrix proteins, as compared to other unmodified SU-8 surface or those coated with proteins simply by physical adsorption. Furthermore, cell proliferation is dramatically enhanced on the SU-8 surfaces modified under the proposed scheme. Therefore, SU-8 surface modification with covalently bound matrix proteins assisted by APTES+GA provides a highly biocompatible interface for the enhanced adhesion, spreading and proliferation of MSCs.
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spelling ntu-10356/611282023-03-03T16:03:31Z Protein covalently conjugated SU-8 surface for the enhancement of mesenchymal stem cell adhension and proliferation Bao, Jingnan School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Kang YueJun DRNTU::Engineering Cell growing behavior is significantly dependent on the surface chemistry of materials. SU-8 is a high contrast, epoxy based negative photoresist. Its abilities of excellent thermal and mechanical stability make it popular to fabricate semi-conductor devices, microfluidics, microelectromechanical systems, as well as most biocompatible materials. But native SU-8 is also highly hydrophobic and has a low surface energy, which make it not favorable for cell culture, and cell attachment. Although physical adsorption of proteins could enhance the cell adhesion, the effect is not durable. In this work, SU-8 surface chemistry is modified by immobilizing fibronectin (FN) and collagen type I (COL I) covalently using (3-aminopropyl)triethoxy silane (APTES), and cross-linker glutaraldehyde (GA) to increase surface biofunctionality. The effectiveness of this surface treatment to improve the adhesion and viability of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) is investigated. It is found that the wettability of SU-8 surface can be significantly increased by this chemical modification. In addition, the spreading area of MSCs increases on the SU-8 surfaces with covalently conjugated matrix proteins, as compared to other unmodified SU-8 surface or those coated with proteins simply by physical adsorption. Furthermore, cell proliferation is dramatically enhanced on the SU-8 surfaces modified under the proposed scheme. Therefore, SU-8 surface modification with covalently bound matrix proteins assisted by APTES+GA provides a highly biocompatible interface for the enhanced adhesion, spreading and proliferation of MSCs. ​Master of Science (Biomedical Engineering) 2014-06-05T05:42:17Z 2014-06-05T05:42:17Z 2014 2014 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10356/61128 en 40 p. application/pdf
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Protein covalently conjugated SU-8 surface for the enhancement of mesenchymal stem cell adhension and proliferation
title Protein covalently conjugated SU-8 surface for the enhancement of mesenchymal stem cell adhension and proliferation
title_full Protein covalently conjugated SU-8 surface for the enhancement of mesenchymal stem cell adhension and proliferation
title_fullStr Protein covalently conjugated SU-8 surface for the enhancement of mesenchymal stem cell adhension and proliferation
title_full_unstemmed Protein covalently conjugated SU-8 surface for the enhancement of mesenchymal stem cell adhension and proliferation
title_short Protein covalently conjugated SU-8 surface for the enhancement of mesenchymal stem cell adhension and proliferation
title_sort protein covalently conjugated su 8 surface for the enhancement of mesenchymal stem cell adhension and proliferation
topic DRNTU::Engineering
url http://hdl.handle.net/10356/61128
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