Adhesion strength differential of human ligament fibroblasts to collagen types I and III
- 1 September 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Orthopaedic Research
- Vol. 17 (5) , 755-762
- https://doi.org/10.1002/jor.1100170521
Abstract
Fibroblasts embedded in the amorphous healing tissue matrix of ligaments migrate into damaged sites during the inflammatory process that precedes the formation of new connective tissue after ligament injury. Cell motility involved in this migration is strongly influenced by cellular adhesion to proteins of the extracellular matrix. The adhesion mechanism of interest in this study is the attachment of fibroblasts from the anterior cruciate and medial collateral ligaments to types I and III collagen, two fibrillar collagens secreted by fibroblasts during tissue repair. Types I and III collagen constitute a major portion of these ligaments and are assembled by fibroblasts into long cable‐like fibrils in the extracellular space. In this study, a micropipette aspiration technique was used to measure the force required to separate fibroblasts of the anterior cruciate and medial collateral ligaments from substrates composed of type I or III collagen, each at a concentration of 2 or 5 μg/ml. Approximately 1,200 fibroblasts from the anterior cruciate ligament and 1,600 from the medial collateral ligament were used, and the adhesion force and area of these cells were determined. Fibroblasts from the anterior cruciate ligament exhibited greater adhesion force than did those from the medial collateral ligament for all concentrations of types I and III collagen. In addition, the adhesiveness of fibroblasts from both ligaments was dependent on seeding time for all experimental conditions. To determine the adhesiveness per unit area, defined here as the adhesion strength, the adhesion force was normalized by the adhesion area. At early seeding times (15‐45 minutes), fibroblasts from the anterior cruciate ligament exhibited greater adhesion strength on surfaces coated with type‐I collagen than did those from the medial collateral ligament. However, for both collagen substrates, adhesion strength for fibroblasts from the anterior cruciate ligament decreased with seeding time whereas that for fibroblasts from the medial collateral ligament remained relatively constant for all seeding periods (15‐75 minutes).Keywords
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