Abdolmaleki A, Zahri S, Bezaatpour A,
Volume 71, Issue 1 (4 2013)
Abstract
Background: Salen metal complexes are used successfully in a wide range of asymmet-ric reactions and important in the pharmaceutical and industry. On the toxicity of salen vanadium oxide (VOsalen) on embryo and cell cultures, little information is available. In the present study, the toxic and teratogenic effects of VOsalen was evaluated against chicken embryos as a animal model and liver and fibroblast cell cultures which was derived from the embryo.
Methods: The VOsalen compound was synthesized. The compound solution was inject-ed in triplicate examination, in the air sac of the eggs, at third day of incubation. Treat-ed and control eggs, on day 19 of incubation opened and embryos were weighted, then mortality rate was recorded. The liver and fibroblast cell culture were treated by this and survival fraction was recorded.
Results: The survived fraction of the embryos depends on the compound concentration. In concentration of 300μM/egg, 36/32% of the embryos survived and the Lethal dose 50% (LD50) was 226/37 μM/egg. Morphological study of the treated embryos showed retarded growth, and skeletal staining showed the deletion of caudal vertebrate. The compound was inhibited liver and fibroblast cells growth with IC50 1047/25 and 1036/82μM respectively. The cytoplasm of treated cells became dense and their interco-nnections were loosed.
Conclusion: The VOsalen compound had low toxic effects against the embryos and the cultured cells at the concentrations. Significant cytotoxic effect was not observed in the treated cells. However the proliferative cells were affected significantly in comparison with the cells which their growth was stopped. The effect of VOsalen compound against replication of liver cells were lower than fibroblast cells.
Arash Abdolmaleki , Mohammad Bagher Ghayour , Masoud Feridoni ,
Volume 73, Issue 5 (August 2015)
Abstract
Fibronectin (FN) is one of the essential component of the extra cellular matrix and their important role is as regulator of cellular activities and also fibronectin is an important scaffold for maintaining tissue. Fibronectin conformational changes expose additional binding sites that participate in fibril formation and in conversion of fibrils into a stabilized, insoluble form. In fact fibronectin is a connected glycoprotein disulfide dimer with sedimentation coefficient of approximately S 13 and 440 kDa molecular mass which is exist in many extracellular matrix and plasma with concentration of approximately 300 µg/ml that during the regeneration body tissues acts in severely regulated stages until regenerate the damaged tissue. Fibronectin has domains for interacting with other extra cellular matrix proteins, cell surface receptors, glycosaminoglycans (GAGs), and other FN molecules. This combination of domains allows FNs to bind simultaneously to cells and to molecules within the surrounding matrix. Also fibronectin have binding sites for collagen/ gelatin, heparin, fibrinogen, and other molecules. In the present study important roles of fibronectin in development, regeneration especially in nerves system and important role of it in treatment of some diseases have been reviewed. Present study has reviewed 77 publications by using of PubMed, NCBI, Elsevier, EBSCO and Nature databases for describing the important roles of fibronectin in biological systems. Studies have shown that fibronectin has diverse roles such as: cellular adhesion, embryonic differentiation, assembly of extra cellular matrix, connecting and cell growth, transformation as well as cell migration that each of this roles depends to fibronectins action site. Considering the important role of fibronectin in attachment of cancer cells to basal lamina, spread neoplasm, tissue regeneration and formation of extra cellular matrix better identification the properties as well as physiological applications of fibronectin in tissues and bodies of animals can provide the better understanding of physiological mechanisms and pathophysiological effects of cells on each other, and also provides the new ways for treatment a variety of diseases.
Arash Abdolmaleki, Mohammad-Bagher Ghayour, Saber Zahri, Asadollah Asadi , Morteza Behnam-Rassouli ,
Volume 77, Issue 2 (May 2019)
Abstract
Background: Tissue engineering is a developing multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary field involving the use of bioartificial implants for tissue remodeling with the target for repair and enhancing tissue or organ function. Acellular nerve has been used in experimental models as a peripheral nerve substitute. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the mechanical and histological characteristics of acellular nerve scaffolds compared to the fresh nerve for application in environmental nerve repair.
Methods: This experimental study was conducted in Ferdowsi University of Mashhad Regeneration Research Laboratory, Mashhad, Iran, from May 2017 to October 2018. In this study for preparing the scaffold. The rats were sacrificed by intraperitoneal anesthesia with 10 % Chloral Hydrate solution. Then sciatic nerve fragments of the rats were removed above the nerve branching site and after cleansing of the tissues were decellularized by Sondell method, briefly nerves were treated with a series of detergent baths consisting of distilled water for 8 h, Triton X-100 for 12 h, and sodium deoxycholate for 24 hours according to the Sondell protocol. All acellularization steps were performed at room temperature. Then decellularized scaffolds were evaluated histologically and mechanically.
Results: The results of tissue evaluations showed that decellularization of scaffolds were done completely, this was demonstrated by hematoxylin and eosin staining and DAPI staining. Also the specialized tissue evaluations by picro-fuchsin staining and evaluation the scaffolds by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) micrographs showed that the collagen and elastin strands are relatively preserved in the extracellular matrix in comparison with control groups. As well as mechanical examination of scaffolds in tensile test showed that extracellular matrix of scaffolds was relatively preserved the main components of tissue compared to control group and scaffolds have good mechanical resistance quality for use in tissue engineering.
Conclusion: The results of the present study showed that decellularized scaffolds that prepared with Sondell decellularization method by preserving the main components of the tissue can be a good platform for investigating cellular behaviors.
Mahnaz Mahmoudi Sohi , Asadollah Asadi , Peyman Brouki Milan , Esmaeil Sharifi, Arash Abdolmaleki,
Volume 79, Issue 4 (July 2021)
Abstract
Background: Wound healing is a complicated process involving the proliferation of the epithelial cells, deposition of granulation tissue as well as recruitment of inflammatory cells. It also is a hot topic of research for trauma, orthopedics and general surgery studies. There are many forms of cells involved in this process. This study aimed to design a tissue-engineered wound dressing consisting of chitosan fibers containing silver ion bioactive nanoparticles for wound healing.
Methods: The present study is an experimental study that was conducted in the research laboratory of the Department of Biology of Mohaghegh Ardabili University from April to November 2019. All experiments of this study have been performed under the ethical guideline of Helsinki and in accordance with the Ethics Committee of the Mohaghegh Ardabili University of Ardabil (Iran). The wound dressing of nanofibers was prepared by the sol-gel method. Cytotoxicity was assessed by MTT assay. Then the antimicrobial properties of nanofibers were determined by the disk diffusion method. SEM and AFM images were obtained from nanofibers. Finally, nanofibers were analyzed by the FTRI method.
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Results: Results of the prepared tissue-engineered wound dressing consisting of chitosan fibers containing silver ion-doped bioactive nanoparticles showed that cytotoxicity was at an appropriate level. The nanofibers prepared with 2% silver nanoparticles produced a 10 mm inhibition zone against Staphylococcus aureus and a 9 mm inhibition zone against Escherichia coli. Therefore, the best percentage of scaffolds in the present study was 2%. Also, results of the SEM micrographs and AFM image analysis of the scaffolds showed that the nanofibers had good roughness and a proper structure for cell seeding and attachments. Besides that, FTIR analysis also showed that the prepared nanofibers had standard bonds.
Conclusion: Chitosan-Silver nanoparticles scaffold have antimicrobial activity on Gram-negative and positive bacteria. The results of the toxicity test also showed that it did not have much toxicity on the cultured cells. Therefore, it can be considered for therapeutic applications, such as wound dressing.
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