Pulsed electric field mediated in vitro cellular response of fibroblast and osteoblast-like cells on conducting austenitic stainless steel substrate

Dubey, Ashutosh Kumar and Agrawal, Parnika and Misra, Devesh Kumar R and Basu, Bikramjit (2013) Pulsed electric field mediated in vitro cellular response of fibroblast and osteoblast-like cells on conducting austenitic stainless steel substrate. In: JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE-MATERIALS IN MEDICINE, 24 (7). pp. 1789-1798.

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Abstract

This article reports the intermittent pulse electric field stimulus mediated in vitro cellular response of L929 mouse fibroblast/SaOS2 osteoblast-like cells on austenitic steel substrates in reference to the field strength dependent behavior. The cellular density and morphometric analyses revealed that the optimal electric (E) fields for the maximum cell density of adhered L929 (similar to 270 % to that of untreated sample) and SaOS2 (similar to 280 % to that of untreated sample) cells are 1 V (0.33 V/cm) and 2 V (0.67 V/cm), respectively. The trend in aspect ratio of elongated SaOS2 cells did not indicate any significant difference among the untreated and treated (up to 3.33 V/cm) cells. The average cell and nucleus areas (for SaOS2 cells) were increased with an increase in the applied voltage up to 8 V (2.67 V/cm) and reduced thereafter. However, the ratio of nucleus to total cell area was increased significantly on the application of higher voltages (2-10 V), indicating the possible influence of E-field on cell growth. Further, the cell density results were compared with earlier results obtained with sintered Hydroxyapatite (HA) and HA-BaTiO3 composites and such comparison revealed that the enhanced cell density on steel sample occurs upon application of much lower field strength and stimulation time. This indicates the possible role of substrate conductivity towards cell growth in pulsed E-field mediated culture conditions.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE-MATERIALS IN MEDICINE
Publisher:	SPRINGER
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article is belongs to SPRINGER
Department/Centre:	Division of Chemical Sciences > Materials Research Centre
Date Deposited:	04 Sep 2013 07:06
Last Modified:	04 Sep 2013 07:06
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/47048

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