Journal: Bioactive Materials
Article Title: End-tail soaking strategy toward robust and biomimetic sandwich-layered hydrogels for full-thickness bone regeneration
doi: 10.1016/j.bioactmat.2025.02.045
Figure Lengend Snippet: Effects of osteoblasts on immune regulation. (a) Reactome annotation analysis of the close relation between differential genes and immune activation. (b) Analysis of PPI networks after co-culture of hydrogel and mesenchymal stem cells. (c) Expression of macrophage polarization-related genes detected by qPCR after hydrogel co-culture with macrophages (n = 3). (d) Macrophage polarization phenotype of macrophages co-cultured with hydrogel-pretreated BMSCs detected by qPCR (n = 3). (e) Detection of macrophage M2 type polarization in co-culture groups by flow cytometry. Wherein, bmsc(+) means multicellular co-culture. (f) Polarization quantification by flow cytometry of macrophages (n = 3). (g) Differential ratio of polarization of macrophages after direct versus indirect co-culture in hydrogels detected by flow cytometry. (h) Immunofluorescence staining of macrophage polarization states in animal sections (Blue: DAPI; Red:CD86; Green:CD206. Scale bar, 50 μm). The arrow indicates the interface between newly formed bone and macrophages.
Article Snippet: The immunofluorescence staining method for CD86 (GB115630, Servicebio, China), CD206 (GB113497, Servicebio, China), and CD31 (GB120005, Servicebio, China) were the same as described above.
Techniques: Activation Assay, Co-Culture Assay, Expressing, Cell Culture, Flow Cytometry, Immunofluorescence, Staining