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JOURNAL ARTICLE
RESEARCH SUPPORT, N.I.H., EXTRAMURAL
RESEARCH SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T
Healing and normal fibroblasts exhibit differential proliferation, collagen production, alpha-SMA expression, and contraction.
Annals of Biomedical Engineering 2006 April
This study determines the differences in proliferation, collagen production, alpha-smooth muscle actin (alpha-SMA) expression, and contraction between healing and normal fibroblasts. Transected and sham-operated rat medial collateral ligaments (MCL) were used to obtain healing and normal fibroblasts, respectively. It was found that healing fibroblasts in monolayer culture proliferated 1.4-fold faster at 48 h and had 1.7-fold greater protein expression of alpha-SMA than normal fibroblasts. In addition, it was noted that the proliferation of healing fibroblasts in collagen gels was not significantly different from that of normal fibroblasts at 24 h, but it was at 48 h. Furthermore, in collagen gels, healing fibroblasts produced more type I collagen than normal fibroblasts and generated 1.6- and 1.7-fold larger contractile forces at 15 and 20 h, respectively, than their normal counterparts. Taken together, the results of this study show that healing fibroblasts possess a differential proliferation, alpha-SMA protein expression, and contraction than normal fibroblasts.
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