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The relationship between glial cell mechanosensitivity and foreign body reactions in the central nervous system

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Moshayedi, Pouria, Ng, Gilbert, Kwok, Jessica C.F., Yeo, Giles S.H., Bryant, Clare E., Fawcett, James W., Franze, Kristian, Guck, Jochen·2014·Biomaterials

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Devices implanted into the body become encapsulated due to a foreign body reaction. In the central nervous system (CNS), this can lead to loss of functionality in electrodes used to treat disorders. Around CNS implants, glial cells are activated, undergo gliosis and ultimately encapsulate the electrodes. The primary cause of this reaction is unknown. Here we show that the mechanical mismatch between nervous tissue and electrodes activates glial cells. Both primary rat microglial cells and astrocytes responded to increasing the contact stiffness from physiological values (G' ∼ 100 Pa) to shear moduli G' ≥ 10 kPa by changes in morphology and upregulation of inflammatory genes and proteins. Upon implantation of composite foreign bodies into rat brains, foreign body reactions were significantly enhanced around their stiff portions in vivo. Our results indicate that CNS glial cells respond to mechanical cues, and suggest that adapting the surface stiffness of neural implants to that of nervous tissue could minimize adverse reactions and improve biocompatibility.

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Moshayedi, P., Ng, G., Kwok, J. C. F., Yeo, G. S. H., Bryant, C. E., Fawcett, J. W., Franze, K., & Guck, J.
Venue
Biomaterials
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2014-04
Volume
35
Issue
13
Pages
3919-3925
ISSN
0142-9612 (ISSN-L)
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W2001379153
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394
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9.66
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journal article
Language
en
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Moshayedi, P., Ng, G., Kwok, J. C. F., Yeo, G. S. H., Bryant, C. E., Fawcett, J. W., Franze, K., & Guck, J. (2014). The relationship between glial cell mechanosensitivity and foreign body reactions in the central nervous system. Biomaterials. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biomaterials.2014.01.038

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