Native and decellularized porcine vena cava: Biomechanical and microstructural comparison

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2025.05.071" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.actbio.2025.05.071</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Native and decellularized porcine vena cava: Biomechanical and microstructural comparison

Original language description

Tissue decellularization has emerged as a technique to provide an acellular, non-immunogenic scaffold that preserves the morphological features of native tissue. To study the possible effects of decellularization, investigating the mechanical behavior and the protein composition is crucial. In this study, we performed extension-inflation tests on native and decellularized porcine vena cava and investigated their microstructure using multiphoton microscopy. The mechanical behavior of both groups showed typical pressure-stretch curves of vascular structures with viscoelastic and nonlinear features. Importantly, no significant differences were found at inflation of 10, 20 and 30 mmHg, although some variability was observed in the decellularized scaffolds. When analyzing the results of the vessel wall multiphoton microscopy investigations, it was found that collagen fibers were packed in tortuous bundles in the media, but scattered in the adventitia. The fibers were oriented around 72° from the circumferential direction for both groups and at the same time equally distributed out-of-plane. Moreover, the collagen fibers diameter for media and adventitia was around 4 µm. Tortuosity and straightness were the same in the adventitia; however, the situation was different in the media, where the fibers in native samples were straighter than in decellularized scaffolds. Our findings show the potential of our protocol to obtain venous scaffolds that could be used for vascular reconstruction, as their mechanical properties are largely comparable to those of their native counterparts. The detailed analysis of the microstructure also represents a first step towards better understanding the physiology of the vessels and replicating these conditions in silico. STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE: Tissue engineering provides a scaffold as substrate for in vitro cells seeding. Decellularization completely removes immunogenic cellular components, preserving the organ ultrastructure. Consequently, decellularized scaffolds provide a natural microenvironment for cell repopulation and facilitate functional recovery in vitro. We have comprehensively characterized the decellularized porcine vena cava by comparing its mechanical properties and microstructural characteristics with its native counterpart. Extension-inflation testing is considered a method to mimic stresses and stretches in vivo. Since no significant differences were found between native and decellularized tissue, these scaffolds show some potential. Moreover, this study was expanded to include microstructural characterization of collagen fibers using multi-photon microscopy, making it the first of its kind dedicated to biomechanical and microstructural evaluation of decellularized veins.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10610 - Biophysics

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Acta Biomaterialia

ISSN

1742-7061

e-ISSN

1878-7568

Volume of the periodical

201

Issue of the periodical within the volume

July

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

429-445

UT code for WoS article

001533251100001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105008575733