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Versatile synthetic alternatives to Matrigel for vascular toxicity screening and stem cell expansion

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Nguyen, Eric H., Daly, William T., Le, Ngoc Nhi T., Farnoodian, Mitra, Belair, David G., Schwartz, Michael P., Lebakken, Connie S., Ananiev, Gene E. +4 more·2017·Nature Biomedical Engineering

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The physiological relevance of Matrigel as a cell-culture substrate and in angiogenesis assays is often called into question. Here, we describe an array-based method for the identification of synthetic hydrogels that promote the formation of robust in vitro vascular networks for the detection of putative vascular disruptors, and that support human embryonic stem cell expansion and pluripotency. We identified hydrogel substrates that promoted endothelial-network formation by primary human umbilical vein endothelial cells and by endothelial cells derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells, and used the hydrogels with endothelial networks to identify angiogenesis inhibitors. The synthetic hydrogels show superior sensitivity and reproducibility over Matrigel when evaluating known inhibitors, as well as in a blinded screen of a subset of 38 chemicals, selected according to predicted vascular disruption potential, from the Toxicity ForeCaster library of the US Environmental Protection Agency. The identified synthetic hydrogels should be suitable alternatives to Matrigel for common cell-culture applications.

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Nguyen, E. H., Daly, W. T., Le, N. N. T., Farnoodian, M., Belair, D. G., Schwartz, M. P., Lebakken, C. S., Ananiev, G. E., Saghiri, M. A., Knudsen, T. B., Sheibani, N., & Murphy, W. L.
Affiliations
  • University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
  • Environmental Protection Agency (US)
  • Wisconsin Department of Transportation (US)
Corresponding author
Murphy, William L.
Venue
Nature Biomedical Engineering
Published
2017-07-11
Volume
1
Issue
7
ISSN
2157-846X (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2735140255
Cited by
136
References
87
Citations by year
2026: 14 · 2025: 18 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 21 · 2020: 21 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 13 · 2017: 4
FWCI
5.27
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Nature Biomedical Engineering (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  • U.S. Department of Agriculture
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • National Institutes of Health (UH2TR000506)
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (T32HL007889, R01HL093282, T32HL007936)
  • National Eye Institute (R01EY026078, R24EY022883, P30EY016665)
  • National Cancer Institute (P30CA014520)
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (P41GM103399, T32GM008349)
  • National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (T32ES007015)
  • National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (R01EB010039, R21EB016381)
  • National Center for Research Resources (S10RR002781, S10RR029220, S10RR025062, P41RR002301, S10RR008438, S10RR023438)
  • National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Medicine › Hydrogels: synthesis, properties, applications
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › 3D Printing in Biomedical Research
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cell Biology › Cellular Mechanics and Interactions
Keywords
synthetic hydrogels, Matrigel alternative, angiogenesis inhibitors, human umbilical vein endothelial cells, pluripotency, cell culture substrates

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