Research Article

Systematic Investigation of Polyurethane Biomaterial Surface Roughness on Human Immune Responses in vitro

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Pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokine production from PBMCs cultured on polyurethane with different surface roughness. PBMCs were cultured for three days on polyurethane of increasing surface roughness (P0–P7), after which the concentrations of pro-inflammatory (a) and anti-inflammatory (b) cytokines were assessed using multiplexed bead-based sandwich immunoassays. For IL-10, the samples TCP, P0 and P2 were below the lower limit of quantification (3 pg/mL) and therefore do not contain error bars. Data points are derived from of three technical replicates tested for 1 representative donor (3 donors tested in total). TCP, tissue culture polystyrene.
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