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Human platelet releasates combined with polyglycolic acid scaffold promote chondrocyte differentiation and phenotypic maintenance

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In the present study, we aimed to demonstrate the differentiating properties of platelet-rich plasma releasates (PRPr) on human chondrocytes seeded on a polygtlycolic acid (PGA) 3D scaffold. Gene expression and biochemical analysis were carried out to assess the improved quality of our PGA-based cartilage constructs supplemented with PRPr. We observed that the use of PRPr as cell cultures supplementation to PGA-chondrocyte constructs may promote chondrocyte differentiation, and thus may contribute to maintaining the chondrogenic phenotype longer than conventional supplementation by increasing high levels of important chondrogenic markers (e.g. sox9, aggrecan and type II collagen), without induction of type I collagen. Moreover, our constructs were analysed for the secretion and deposition of important ECM molecules (sGAG, type II collagen, etc.). Our results indicate that PRPr supplementation may synergize with PGA-based scaffolds to stimulate human articular chondrocyte differentiation, maturation and phenotypic maintenance.

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Acknowledgements

This work is dedicated to the memory of Professor Roberto Marcolongo.

This work has been supported by Telethon; Contract grant number: GGP10058. The authors also thank Toscana Life Sciences Orphan_1 project, Fondazione Monte dei Paschi di Siena 2008-2010.

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  1. Dipartimento di Biotecnologie, Chimica e Farmacia, Università degli Studi di Siena, Siena, Italy

    Giulia Bernardini & Annalisa Santucci

  2. Dipartimento Scienze Mediche, Chirurgiche e Neuroscienze, Università degli Studi di Siena, Siena, Italy

    Federico Chellini & Bruno Frediani

  3. Unità di Immunoematologia Trasfusionale, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Senese, Siena, Italy

    Adriano Spreafico

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Giulia Bernardini and Federico Chellini contributed equally to this work.

[Bernardini G, Chellini F, Frediani B, Spreafico A and Santucci A 2015 Human platelet releasates combined with polyglycolic acid scaffold promote chondrocyte differentiation and phenotypic maintenance. J. Biosci. 40 1–9] DOI 10.1007/s12038-014-9492-2

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Bernardini, G., Chellini, F., Frediani, B. et al. Human platelet releasates combined with polyglycolic acid scaffold promote chondrocyte differentiation and phenotypic maintenance. J Biosci 40, 61–69 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12038-014-9492-2

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