Human decellularized adipose tissue hydrogels as a culture platform for human adipose-derived stem cell delivery

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Adipose-derived stem cells (ADSCs) have been widely researched and used as a drug therapy in many fields like disease treatment and tissue engineering. However, ADSCs are susceptible to the surrounding environment. The emergence of acellular extracellular matrix provides a solution, which can serve as biomaterial scaffold as well as original ecological niche for the stem cells. Therefore, we propose the hypothesis that human decellularized adipose tissues (hDAT) are processed into injectable hydrogels and then mixed evenly with ADSCs. So that the ADSCs embedded-hydrogels could directly carry the stem cells to the appropriate sites. The hDAT hydrogel could provide microenvironmental protection for ADSCs. In this study, we successfully made human decellularized adipose tissue hydrogel (hDAT-gel), which was temperature-sensitive, liquid at 4°C and semi-solid at 37°C. When the ADSCs were embedded in hDAT-gel, they survived well and continued to grow well in layers. When the pre-gel containing ADSCs was injected subcutaneously into nude mice, the sample results after 15 min showed gelation occurred in situ. These results suggested that hDAT-gel could provide a culture platform for ADSCs delivery.

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Pu, W., Han, Y., & Yang, M. (2021). Human decellularized adipose tissue hydrogels as a culture platform for human adipose-derived stem cell delivery. Journal of Applied Biomaterials and Functional Materials, 19. https://doi.org/10.1177/2280800020988141

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