Physical shish-kebab modification vs. chemical surface coating on expanded polytetrafluoroethylene vascular grafts for enhanced endothelial cell adhesion

Promoting rapid adhesion of endothelial cells is of significance for the viability of vascular grafts for small-diameter blood vessels (SDBVs) made of expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE). Many physical and chemical surface modification methods have been developed to overcome the inertness of eP...

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Main Authors: Li, Q. (Author), Turng, L.-S (Author), Wang, D. (Author), Wang, H. (Author), Wang, X. (Author), Xu, Y. (Author), Yu, X. (Author), Zhang, Y. (Author)
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier Ltd 2022
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245 1 0 |a Physical shish-kebab modification vs. chemical surface coating on expanded polytetrafluoroethylene vascular grafts for enhanced endothelial cell adhesion 
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520 3 |a Promoting rapid adhesion of endothelial cells is of significance for the viability of vascular grafts for small-diameter blood vessels (SDBVs) made of expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE). Many physical and chemical surface modification methods have been developed to overcome the inertness of ePTFE and to promote cell adhesion. In this study, a biomimetic poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL) shish-kebab microstructure was formed on the fibrillated domains of ePTFE through induced crystallization. The surface morphology and chemistry, mechanical property, cytocompatibility, and endothelial cell adhesion of PCL shish-kebab modified ePTFE were investigated. The effectiveness of and synergy between this physical topology modification and the traditional chemical RGD dig-coating in terms of cell adhesion were also evaluated. The positive effect of the shish-kebab structure on cell adhesion was found to be more significant than that of RGD coating, and there is a strong synergy between ePTFE surface modification and RGD coating. The biomimetic shish-kebab structure could be a promising material platform for further grafting and/or surface functionalization of ePTFE for other tissue engineering applications. © 2022 The Authors 
650 0 4 |a Biomechanics 
650 0 4 |a Biomimetics 
650 0 4 |a Blood vessels 
650 0 4 |a Cell adhesion 
650 0 4 |a Cells adhesion 
650 0 4 |a Chemical modification 
650 0 4 |a Coatings 
650 0 4 |a Endothelial cell adhesion 
650 0 4 |a Endothelial cells 
650 0 4 |a Endothelial-cells 
650 0 4 |a ePTFE vascular grafts 
650 0 4 |a Expanded polytetrafluoroethylene 
650 0 4 |a Expanded polytetrafluoroethylene vascular graft 
650 0 4 |a Grafts 
650 0 4 |a Microstructure 
650 0 4 |a Morphology 
650 0 4 |a Poly(ε caprolactone) 
650 0 4 |a Poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL) 
650 0 4 |a Polytetrafluoroethylenes 
650 0 4 |a Shish-kebab microstructure 
650 0 4 |a Shish-kebabs 
650 0 4 |a Surface functionalization 
650 0 4 |a Surface Functionalization 
650 0 4 |a Surface modification 
650 0 4 |a Surface morphology 
650 0 4 |a Surface treatment 
650 0 4 |a Surface-modification 
650 0 4 |a Tissue engineering 
650 0 4 |a Vascular grafts 
700 1 |a Li, Q.  |e author 
700 1 |a Turng, L.-S.  |e author 
700 1 |a Wang, D.  |e author 
700 1 |a Wang, H.  |e author 
700 1 |a Wang, X.  |e author 
700 1 |a Xu, Y.  |e author 
700 1 |a Yu, X.  |e author 
700 1 |a Zhang, Y.  |e author 
773 |t Materials and Design