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Decrease in Culture Temperature Releases Monolayer Endothelial Cell Sheets Together with Deposited Fibronectin Matrix from Temperature-responsive Culture Surfaces

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Date 1999 May 13
PMID 10321708
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Bovine aortic endothelial cells were cultured on surfaces grafted with a temperature-responsive polymer, poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PIPAAm), in the presence of serum. Cells adhered, spread, proliferated, and reached confluency as observed on ungrafted tissue culture polystyrene dishes. A decrease in culture temperature released cells only from the grafted surfaces without enzymatic or ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid treatment. Upon lowering temperature, the culture surfaces changed from hydrophobic to hydrophilic owing to the hydration of grafted PIPAAm and thus weakened the cell attachment to the dishes. Released cells maintained cell-cell junctions composing monolayer cell sheets. Immunoblotting and immunofluorescence microscopy revealed that fibronectin (FN) was deposited and accumulated on the grafted surfaces during the culture. Furthermore, the deposited FN matrix adhering to cell sheets was also recovered from temperature-responsive surfaces by low-temperature treatment, while trypsin treatment destroyed the matrix. The recovery of FN by low-temperature treatment was as high as by physical scraping with a rubber blade. Temperature-responsive surfaces can provide a novel method to use cultured confluent cell sheets for tissue engineering, and also to elucidate structure and function of deposited extracellular matrix during cell culture.

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