A new strategy is adopted to construct the hydrogel microchannel with the enzymatically-crosslinked gelatin by evaluating the different concentration gelatin hydrogel
which aims to solve the difficulty of fabricating circular microchannel by soft hydrogel. The relationship of the gelatin properties(mechanical
forming and biological)with its concentration is revealed and discussed
and the molding process of gelatin hydrogel microchannel is proposed. The structural
mechanical and endothelialization properties of gelatin hydrogel microchannel are also studied. The experimental results indicate that with the increasing gelatin concentration
the mechanical property and microstructure replication property of the composite hydrogels are gradually improved
however
superior concentration causes lower biological performance. Hence
the hydrogel with 0. 1 g/mL gelatin is chosen as the optimal composition to build circular microchannel. The approach for fabricating microchannel retains the original mechanical properties of the hydrogel
although certain error exists in the forming process from characterizing morphology and the dimension of the microchannel. Besides
the microchannel gelatin facilitates attaching and spreading of human umbilical endothelial cells(HUVECs)to form a uniform endothelialized layer around the channel surface. Following the evaluation of different concentrations of enzymatically crosslinked gelatin hydrogel
the biomimetic microchannel can be expected to apply to reconstruction of substantive functional organs.
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