Antibacterial activity and composition of decellularized goat lung extracellular matrix for its tissue engineering applications

Abstract

In this study, scaffold was fabricated from goat-lung of cadaver goat by decellularization method for its potential application in tissue engineering. The cellular components of goat-lung were removed by employing trypsin-SDS based method of decellularization. DNA quantification and DAPI staining verified the effective removal of native cells from the goat-lung. Verhoeff-Van Gieson (VVG) staining, H&E staining and Periodic-Acid Schiff (PAS) staining histologically assessed the composition of native and decellularized goat-lung matrix―demonstrating the presence of collagen, elastin and glycoproteins in the decellularized goat-lung matrix. Antibacterial activity of decellularized goat-lung matrix was evaluated against gram-negative (Escherichiacoli) and gram-positive (Staphylococcusaureus) bacteria, which shows the presence of naturally occurring bioactive peptides―exhibiting the antibacterial activity against E. coli for up to 9h and against S. aureus for up to 5h. The decellularized goat-lung matrix, as demonstrated by MTT assay, was found to be biocompatibile to L929 mouse fibroblasts, HepG2, human skin derived mesenchymal stem cells (hS-MSCs), osteoblasts and BMMSCs. All the above results confer the applicability of the decellularized goat-lung matrix as a potential scaffold for tissue engineering applications.