Cell recruiting chemokine-loaded sprayable gelatin hydrogel dressings for diabetic wound healing

July 28, 2017

Title

Cell recruiting chemokine-loaded sprayable gelatin hydrogel dressings for diabetic wound healing

Author

Dong Suk Yoon, Yunki Lee, Hyun Aae Ryu, Yeonsue Jang, Kyoung-Mi Lee, Yoorim Choi, Woo Jin Choi, Moses Lee, Kyung Min Park, Ki Dong Park, Jin Woo Lee

Year

2016

Journal

Acta Biomaterialia

Abstract

In this study, we developed horseradish peroxidase (HRP)-catalyzed sprayable gelatin hydrogels (GH) as a bioactive wound dressing that can deliver cell-attracting chemotactic cytokines to the injured tissues for diabetic wound healing. We hypothesized that topical administration of chemokines using GH hydrogels might improve wound healing by inducing recruitment of the endogenous cells. Two types of chemokines (interleukin-8; IL-8, macrophage inflammatory protein-3α; MIP-3α) were simply loaded into GH hydrogels during in situ cross-linking, and then their wound-healing effects were evaluated in streptozotocin-induced diabetic mice. The incorporation of chemokines did not affect hydrogels properties including swelling ratio and mechanical stiffness, and the bioactivities of IL-8 and MIP-3α released from hydrogel matrices were stably maintained.In vivo transplantation of chemokine-loaded GH hydrogels facilitated cell infiltration into the wound area, and promoted wound healing with enhanced re-epithelialization/neovascularization and increased collagen deposition, compared with no treatment or the GH hydrogel alone. Based on our results, we suggest that cell-recruiting chemokine-loaded GH hydrogel dressing can serve as a delivery platform of various therapeutic proteins for wound healing applications.

Instrument

J-810

Keywords

Circular dichroism, Secondary structure, Materials, Medicinal, Biochemistry