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Photopolymerized micropatterns with high feature frequencies overcome chemorepulsive borders to direct neurite growth.

Abstract：

:Developing and regenerating neurites respond to a variety of biophysical and biochemical cues in their micro-environment to reach target cells and establish appropriate synapses. Defining the hierarchal relationship of both types of cues to direct neurite growth carries broad significance for neural development, regeneration, and, in particular, engineering of neural prostheses that improve tissue integration with native neural networks. In this work, chemorepulsive biochemical borders are established on substrates with a range of surface microfeatures to determine the potential of physical cues to overcome conflicting biochemical cues. Physical micropatterns are fabricated using photomasking techniques to spatially control photoinitiation events of the polymerization. Temporal control of the reaction allows for generation of microfeatures with the same amplitude across a range of feature frequencies or periodicities. The micropatterned substrates are then modified with repulsive chemical borders between laminin and either EphA4-Fc or tenascin C that compete with the surface microfeatures to direct neurite growth. Behaviour of neurites from spiral ganglion and trigeminal neurons is characterized at biochemical borders as cross, turn, stop, or repel events. Both the chemical borders and physical patterns significantly influence neurite pathfinding. On unpatterned surfaces, most neurites that originate on laminin are deterred by the border with tenascin C or EphA4-Fc. Importantly, substrates with frequent micropattern features overcome the influence of the chemorepulsive border to dominate neurite trajectory. Designing prosthesis interfaces with appropriate surface features may allow for spatially organized neurite outgrowth in vivo even in the presence of conflicting biochemical cues in native target tissues.

journal_name

J Tissue Eng Regen Med

journal_title

Journal of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine

authors

Tuft BW,Xu L,Leigh B,Lee D,Guymon CA,Hansen MR

doi

10.1002/term.2527

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2018-03-01 00:00:00

pages

e1392-e1403

issue

eissn

1932-6254

issn

1932-7005

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Photopolymerized micropatterns with high feature frequencies overcome chemorepulsive borders to direct neurite growth.