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Poly(hydroxybutyrate-co-hydroxyvalerate) Bilayer Skin Tissue Engineering Constructs with Improved Epidermal Rearrangement

Abstract

Bilayer skin substitutes constitute an attractive strategy towards improved skinwound healing. Therefore, solvent casting and freeze-drying methodologies are used to produce polyhydroxybutyrate-co-hydroxyvalerate (PHBV) thin nanoporousmembranes and 3D porous scaffolds that are combined in bilayer structures to recreate the epidermal and dermal layers, respectively. The combination of these methodologies allow attaining a bilayer structure with a high water retention capability and adequate mechanical properties, susceptible to enzymes degradative action. Cultures established with human keratinocytes (hKC) and dermal fibroblasts (hDFb) confirm the suitability of the PHBV structures to support cell adhesion and proliferation. Nonetheless, when co-cultured under defined conditions, hKC are able to grow and rearrange in a multilayer structure with proliferative cells in the basal layer, and cells expressing a terminal differentiation marker in the upper layer. Therefore, PHBV bilayer structures demonstrate properties that favor skin cells performance, thus representing a promising strategy to improve wound healing.

Journal
Macromolecular bioscience
Pagination
[epub ahead of print)
Publisher
Wiley Online Library
ISSN
1616-5195
URL
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mabi.201400005/abstract
Keywords
bioengineering, Biomimetic, in vitro epidermal rearrangement, polyesters, Wound healing
Rights
Restricted Access
Peer Reviewed
Yes
Status
published
Year of Publication
2014
DOI
10.1002/mabi.201400005
Date Published
2014-03-04
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