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Jisoo Shina, Soojeong Choia, Jung Hyun Kimb, Jung Ho Choa, Yoonhee Jina, Suran Kima, Sungjin Mina, Su Kyeom Kima, Donghoon Choib,* and Seung-Woo Choa,c,d,*
aDepartment of Biotechnology, Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea
bDivision of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Severance Cardiovascular Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea
cCenter for Nanomedicine, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea
dYonsei-IBS Institute, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea
*To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
Hydrogels have been applied to improve stem cell therapy and drug delivery, but current hydrogel‐based delivery methods are inefficient in clinical settings due to difficulty in handling and treatment processes, and low off‐the‐shelf availability. To overcome these limitations, an adhesive hyaluronic acid (HA) hydrogel patch is developed that acts as a ready‐to‐use tissue tape for therapeutic application. The HA hydrogel patches functionalized with phenolic moieties (e.g., catechol, pyrogallol) exhibit stronger tissue adhesiveness, greater elastic modulus, and increased off‐the‐shelf availability, compared with their bulk solution gel form. With this strategy, stem cells are efficiently engrafted onto beating ischemic hearts without injection, resulting in enhanced angiogenesis in ischemic regions and improving cardiac functions. HA hydrogel patches facilitate the in vivo engraftment of stem cell–derived organoids. The off‐the‐shelf availability of the hydrogel patch is also demonstrated as a drug‐loaded ready‐made tissue tape for topical drug delivery to promote wound healing. Importantly, the applicability of the cross‐linker‐free HA patch is validated for therapeutic cell and drug delivery. The study suggests that bioinspired phenolic adhesive hydrogel patches can provide an innovative method for simple but highly effective cell and drug delivery, increasing the off‐the‐shelf availability—a critically important component for translation to clinical settings.
Keywords : drug delivery, hyaluronic acid, off‐the‐shelf availability, phenolic adhesive hydrogel patch, stem cell therapy
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