Curcumin-functionalized silk materials for enhancing adipogenic differentiation of bone marrow-derived human mesenchymal stem cells.
Li C., Luo T., Zheng Z., Murphy AR., Wang X., Kaplan DL.
Laboratory Study, published in Acta Biomater (2014) — summary generated from the PubMed abstract.
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- Study type
- Laboratory Study
- Journal
- Acta Biomater (2014)
- Country
- England
- Reported sample size
- —
- Source database
- PubMed
- PMID
- 25132274
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.actbio.2014.08.009
Abstract (original English)
Curcumin, a natural phenolic compound derived from the plant Curcuma longa, was physically entrapped and stabilized in silk hydrogel films, and its influence on human bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (hBMSC) was assessed related to adipogenic differentiation. The presence of curcumin significantly reduced the silk gelation time and changed the porous morphology of gel matrix, but did not change the formation of the silk beta-sheet structure. Based on spectrofluorimetric analysis, curcumin most likely interacted with hydrophobic residues in silk, interacting with the beta-sheet domains formed in the hydrogels. The antioxidant activity of silk film-associated curcumin remained functional over at least one month in both the dry and hydrated state. Negligible curcumin was released from silk hydrogel films over 48 h incubation in aqueous solution. For hBMSC cultured on silk films containing more than 0.25 mg ml(-1) curcumin, cell proliferation was inhibited, while adipogenesis was significantly promoted based on transcripts as well as Oil Red O staining. When hBMSC were cultured in media containing free curcumin, both proliferation and adipogenesis of hBMSC were inhibited when curcumin concentrations exceeded 5 μM, which is more than 1000 times higher than the level of curcumin released from the films in aqueous solution. Thus, silk film-associated curcumin exhibited diffe
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