Investigadores da Universidade de Donghua, Xangai, China e do Centro de Química da Madeira, Universidade da Madeira, publicam trabalho no Journal of Materials Chemistry, sobre o uso de nanofibras incorporadas com nanodiscos de laponite na diferenciação osteogénica de células mesenquimais estaminais humanas.

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“We report the fabrication of uniform electrospun poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) nanofibers incorporated with laponite (LAP) nanodisks, a synthetic clay material for osteogenic differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs). In this study, a solution mixture of LAP suspension and PLGA was electrospun to form composite PLGA–LAP nanofibers with different LAP doping levels. The PLGA–LAP composite nanofibers formed were systematically characterized via different techniques.”

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