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Cell Response and Tissue Scaffold Triggers Investigated by Scanning Probe Recognition Microscopy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 February 2011
Abstract
This is a copy of the slides presented at the meeting but not formally written up for the volume.
Tissue scaffolds have recently demonstrated widespread application in injury healing due to their biomimetic properties and their structural resemblance to the extracellular matrix in cell re-growth. The investigation of cell response to biomimetic triggers provided by tissue scaffolds will greatly extend the impact of this field.
In this paper, the response of 3T3 NIH fibroblasts to 2D planar surfaces versus their response to nanofiber mat surfaces, which have 3D effects, are investigated. A difference in cell shape from triangular cell body with prominent vertices to triangular cell body with blunted vertices and increased cell-cell adhesions at such vertices was observed using fluorescent microscopy, optical microscopy and atomic force microscopy. A new and powerful atomic force microscopy technique developed by our group, Scanning Probe Recognition Microscopy, is introduced and implemented to directly recognize and auto-focus on fibroblast vertex regions.
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