Nanovibrational stimulation of mesenchymal stem cells induces therapeutic reactive oxygen species and inflammation for 3D bone tissue engineering

Wich Orapiriyakul, Penelope M. Tsimbouri, Peter G. Childs, Paul Campsie, Julia Wells, Marc Fernandez-Yague, Karl Burgess, K. Elizabeth Tanner, Manlio Tassieri, R.M. Dominic Meek, Massimo Vassalli, Manus JP Biggs, Manuel Salmerón-Sánchez, Richard O.C. Oreffo, Stuart Reid, Matthew J Dalby
2020 · doi:10.1101/2020.04.10.035568
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Abstract

ABSTRACT There is a pressing clinical need to develop cell-based bone therapies due to a lack of viable, autologous bone grafts and a growing demand for bone grafts in musculoskeletal surgery. Such therapies can be tissue engineered and cellular, such as osteoblasts combined with a material scaffold. Because mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are both available and fast growing compared to mature osteoblasts, therapies that utilise these progenitor cells are particularly promising. We have developed a nanovibrational bioreactor that can convert MSCs into bone-forming osteoblasts in 2D and 3D but the mechanisms involved in this osteoinduction process remain unclear. Here, to elucidate this mechanism, we use increasing vibrational amplitude, from 30 nm (N30) to 90 nm (N90) amplitudes at 1000 Hz, and assess MSC metabolite, gene and protein changes. These approaches reveal that dose-dependent changes occur in MSCs’ responses to increased vibrational amplitude, particularly in adhesion and mechanosensitive ion channel expression, and that energetic metabolic pathways are activated, leading to low-level reactive oxygen species (ROS) production and to low-level inflammation, as well as to ROS- and inflammation-balancing pathways. These events are analogous to those that occur in the natural bone-healing processes. We have also developed a tissue engineered MSC-laden scaffold designed using cells’ mechanical memory, driven by the stronger N90 stimulation. These new mechanistic insights and cell-scaffold design are underpinned by a process that is free of inductive chemicals.

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