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- Title
Improved long-term culture of hepatocytes in a hydrogel containing Arg-Gly-Asp (RGD).
- Authors
Park, Keun-Hong
- Abstract
Freshly harvested primary rat hepatocytes, which had been entrapped in a synthetic extracellular matrix, were examined for differentiated morphology and enhanced liver-specific functions for long-term culture. A copolymer of N-isopropylacrylamide (98 mol % in the feed) and acrylic acid [poly(NiPAAm-co-AAc)], and the adhesion molecule, Arg-Gly-Asp (RGD), incorporated into a hydrogel, were used to entrap hepatocytes. Over 28 days' culture, the hepatocytes in the RGD-incorporated gel maintained higher viability and produced albumin and urea at constant rates, while there was lower cell viability and less albumin secretion by hepatocytes in poly(NiPAAm-co-AAc). Hepatocytes cultured in the gel with RGD incorporated into it constitutes a potentially useful three-dimensional cell system for application in a bio-artificial liver device.
- Subjects
LIVER cells; BILIARY tract; ALBUMINS; CONNECTIVE tissues; EXTRACELLULAR matrix; URINALYSIS; LABORATORY rats
- Publication
Biotechnology Letters, 2002, Vol 24, Issue 14, p1131
- ISSN
0141-5492
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1023/A:1016138115977