Article In Situ Forming Supramolecular Nanofiber Hydrogel as a Biodegradable Liquid Embolic Agent for Postembolization Tissue Remodeling

Akihiro Nishiguchi SAMURAI ORCID (National Institute for Materials Science) ; Miho Ohta ; Debabrata Palai ORCID (National Institute for Materials Science) ; Shima Ito SAMURAI ORCID (National Institute for Materials Science) ; Kensaku Mori ; Ryotaro Akagi ; Christophe Bajan SAMURAI ORCID (National Institute for Materials Science) ; Guillaume Lambard SAMURAI ORCID (National Institute for Materials Science) ; Keitaro Sodeyama SAMURAI ORCID (National Institute for Materials Science) ; Tetsushi Taguchi SAMURAI ORCID (National Institute for Materials Science)

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Akihiro Nishiguchi, Miho Ohta, Debabrata Palai, Shima Ito, Kensaku Mori, Ryotaro Akagi, Christophe Bajan, Guillaume Lambard, Keitaro Sodeyama, Tetsushi Taguchi. In Situ Forming Supramolecular Nanofiber Hydrogel as a Biodegradable Liquid Embolic Agent for Postembolization Tissue Remodeling. Advanced Healthcare Materials. 2024, 14 (4), 2403784. https://doi.org/10.48505/nims.5346

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Embolic agents have been widely used to treat blood vessel abnormalities in interventional radiology as a minimally invasive procedure. However, only a few biodegradable liquid embolic agents exhibit high embolization performance, biodegradability, and operability. Herein, we report the design of in situ-forming supramolecular nanofiber (SNF) hydrogels as biodegradable liquid embolic agents with the assistance of Bayesian optimization through an active learning pipeline. Chemically modified gelatin with hydrogen-bonding moieties produced fibrin-inspired nanofiber-based hydrogels with a high blood coagulation capacity. The low viscosity of the SNF hydrogels made them injectable using a microcatheter, and the hydrogel showed sufficient tissue adhesion to the blood vessel walls and very weak adhesion to the catheter tubes. Moreover, the SNF hydrogels exhibited high blood compatibility, cytocompatibility, cell-adhesive properties, and biodegradability (in vitro and in vivo). Intravascularly delivered SNF hydrogels induced embolization of rat femoral arteries. This biodegradable liquid embolic agent could be a powerful tool for interventional radiology in the treatment of various diseases, including aortic aneurysm stent grafting, gynecological diseases, and liver cancer.

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    This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: A. Nishiguchi, M. Ohta, D. Palai, S. Ito, K. Mori, R. Akagi, C. Bajan, G. Lambard, K. Sodeyama, T. Taguchi, In Situ Forming Supramolecular Nanofiber Hydrogel as a Biodegradable Liquid Embolic Agent for Postembolization Tissue Remodeling. Adv. Healthcare Mater. 2025, 14, 2403784, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/adhm.202403784. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.

Keyword: Hydrogel, Embolic agent, Machine learning

Date published: 2024-11-07

Publisher: Wiley

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  • Advanced Healthcare Materials (ISSN: 21922659) vol. 14 issue. 4 2403784

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  • Uehara Memorial Foundation
  • Inamori Foundation
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 22H03962
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 23H01718

Manuscript type: Author's original (Submitted manuscript)

MDR DOI: https://doi.org/10.48505/nims.5346

First published URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/adhm.202403784

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Published on MDR: 2025-02-26 16:30:30 +0900

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