Hak-Joon Sung
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Assistant Professor of Medicine-Cardiovascular Medicine
Last active: 2/12/2015

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Elucidation of adhesion-dependent spontaneous apoptosis in macrophages using phase separated PEG/polyurethane films.

Zachman AL, Page JM, Prabhakar G, Guelcher SA, Sung HJ
Acta Biomater. 2013 9 (2): 4964-75

PMID: 23128157 · PMCID: PMC3606556 · DOI:10.1016/j.actbio.2012.10.038

Circulating monocytes undergo spontaneous apoptosis when there is no activation stimulus, which is critical to population control for proper host response to implants. As activation and apoptosis of monocytes/macrophages are regulated by cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions, their regulatory mechanism was investigated in this study using polyethylene glycol (PEG)-containing polyurethane films in which PEG-rich and polyester-rich domains were phase separated. Human blood monocyte-derived macrophages (HBMs) preferentially adhered to PEG domains (cell-matrix interaction) due to the low molecular weight (600 g mol⁻¹), resulting in increased HBM density (cell-cell interaction). As both cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions were promoted, HBM apoptosis increased, while their activation as measured by phagocytosis, intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) level and matrix metalloproteinase-9 production decreased compared to PEG-free films. When cell seeding density and cell-adhesive gelatin coating on silicone films were controlled, a cooperative role of cell-matrix (adhesion) and cell-cell (density) interactions in inducing HBM apoptosis was observed. Expression of the macrophage adhesion molecule CD11b caused apoptosis in this context, which was mediated by tissue necrosis factor-α signaling but down-regulated by the ROS inhibitor diphenylene iodonium and the anti-inflammatory peptide Ac-SDKP, suggesting a new concept for the design of biomaterials that allows for cell adhesion without excessive inflammatory activation.

Copyright © 2012 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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Adsorption Apoptosis Cell Adhesion Cell Communication Cell Count Cell Proliferation Collagen Cytokines Enzyme Activation Extracellular Matrix Humans Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells Inflammation Intracellular Space Macrophages Matrix Metalloproteinase 9 Polyethylene Glycols Polyurethanes Reactive Oxygen Species Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared

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