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Ce travail a pour but de développer des nouveaux substrats d’étude en culture cellulaire. Nous avons d'abord fabriqué des réseaux de micro-piliers en élastomère et en polymères thermoplastiques. En particulier, nous avons réalisé des réseaux de micro-piliers adjacents et de différentes hauteurs, qui dépend de la rigidité de la surface de culture. Nos résultats ont montré que les cellules étaient sensibles à la hauteur des piliers lorsque la rigidité effective du substrat était similaire à celle de la cellule et que les cellules se déplacent préférentiellement vers la partie plus rigide. Nous avons également développé une méthode pour fabriquer des nanofibres sur les piliers élastomère pour créer un substrat qui reproduit la matrice extracellulaire in vivo. Nos résultats ont montré que les neurones primaires de l'hippocampe sur un tel substrat étaient plus actifs que sur des substrats plats. En outre, nous avons analysé le confinement et la déformation des noyaux cellulaires dans les espaces inter-piliers pour les études de cellules tumorales et de cellules souches. Enfin, nous avons intégré les réseaux de micro-piliers dans un dispositif microfluidique afin de montrer que la migration cellulaire soumise à un gradient de concentration était influencée par la rigidité du substrat. En conclusion, les micropiliers ainsi fabriqués peuvent être utilisés pour réguler la rigidité d’un substrat afin d’étudier divers mécanismes en culture cellulaire. / This work aimed to provide new substrates for cell culture studies. We first developed a method to fabricate micropillars in both elastomer and thermoplastic polymer. In particular, we produced adjacent micropillar arrays with different heights to evaluate the surface stiffness dependent migration of cells. Our results showed that cells were sensitive to the height of the pillars when the effective stiffness of the substrate is compatible to that of the cell and that the cells were preferentially localized on the stiffer surface area. We also developed a method to fabricate nanofibers on the elastomer pillars to create in-vivo like extracellular matrix. Our results showed that primary hippocampal neurons on such a substrate were more active than on flat substrates. Furthermore, we analyzed the confinement and deformation of cell nuclei in the inter-pillar areas for both cancer and stem cell studies. Finally, we integrated the micro-pillar arrays into a microfluidic device and showed that the cell migration under concentration gradient was influenced by the substrate stiffness. Altogether, the fabricated pillar arrays can be used to regulate the stiffness of the substrate for cell culture studies.

Orientador: Vera Lúcia Borges Isaac / Banca: Marcos Antonio Corrêa / Banca: Pedro Alves da Rocha Filho / Resumo: Diversos antioxidantes demonstram considerável efeito na prevenção do câncer por reduzir o estresse oxidativo causado por uma ampla variedade de ataques: biológicos, químicos e físicos, dentre os quais a radiação solar ultravioleta (UV) é o estresse físico ambiental descrito entre os mais freqüentes ataques que ocorrem sobre a pele, o qual está associado no desenvolvimento na maioria das doenças, incluindo o câncer. Vários componentes da dieta podem ser utilizados sozinhos ou em combinação com fármacos convencionais para prevenir doenças. Ainda, a busca por metodologias alternativas à experimentação com animais para o teste de eficácia de formas cosméticas de uso tópico é devido à pressão pública existente neste sentido, introduzida principalmente pela Comunidade Européia (93/95/EC). O presente estudo teve por objetivo avaliar a atividade do ácido alfa- lipóico em cultura de células, além do estudo de estabilidade de emulsões O/A e seu comportamento reológico. Para isto, foram utilizadas culturas de células como modelo experimental, na tentativa de desenvolver um método alternativo à experimentação com animais que poderá ser utilizado pela indústria cosmética. Foram utilizadas culturas de células HepG2 (metabolizadoras de xenobióticos) e cultura de células HaCaT (queratinócitos) / Abstract: Several antioxidants show significant effect in preventing cancer by reducing oxidative stress caused by a wide variety of attacks: biological, chemical and physical agents, amongst which the sun's ultraviolet (UV) is the most physical stress environment described among the most frequent attacks that occur on the skin, which is associated with development in most diseases, including cancer. Several dietary components can be used alone or in combination with conventional drugs to prevent disease. Still, the search for alternative methods to animal testing to test the efficacy of topical cosmetic forms is due to public pressure that exists in this sense, introduced mainly by the European Union (93/95/EC). This study aims to assess the activity of alpha-lipoic acid in cultured cells, in addition to studying the stability of O / W emulsions and their rheological behavior. For this, cell cultures are used as experimental models in an attempt to develop an alternative method to animal testing that may be used by the cosmetics industry. Will be used HepG2 cell cultures (xenobiotic metabolizing) and cell culture of HaCaT (keratinocytes) / Mestre