Peptide amphiphile delivery of sonic hedgehog protein promotes neurite formation in penile projecting neurons

Ryan Dobbs; Shawn Choe; Elizabeth Kalmanek; Daniel A. Harrington; Samuel I. Stupp; Kevin T. McVary; Carol A. Podlasek

doi:10.1016/j.nano.2018.06.006

Peptide amphiphile delivery of sonic hedgehog protein promotes neurite formation in penile projecting neurons

Ryan Dobbs, Shawn Choe, Elizabeth Kalmanek, Daniel A. Harrington, Samuel I. Stupp, Kevin T. McVary, Carol A. Podlasek

Northwestern University

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Abstract

Erectile dysfunction (ED) critically impacts quality of life in prostatectomy, diabetic and aging patients. The underlying mechanism involves cavernous nerve (CN) damage, resulting in ED in 80% of prostatectomy patients. Peptide amphiphile (PA) nanofiber hydrogel delivery of sonic hedgehog (SHH) protein to the injured CN, improves erectile function by 60% at 6 weeks after injury, by an unknown mechanism. We hypothesize that SHH is a regulator of neurite formation. SHH treatment promoted extensive neurite formation in uninjured and crushed CNs, and SHH inhibition decreased neurites >80%. Most abundant neurites were observed with continuous SHH PA treatment of crushed CNs. Once induced with SHH, neurites continued to grow. SHH rescued neurite formation when not given immediately. SHH is a critical regulator of neurite formation in peripheral neurons under uninjured and regenerative conditions, and SHH PA treatment at the time of injury/prostatectomy provides an exploitable avenue for intervention to prevent ED.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2087-2094
Number of pages	8
Journal	Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology, and Medicine
Volume	14
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nano.2018.06.006
Publication status	Published - Oct 2018

Keywords

Cavernous nerve injury
Neurite formation
Pelvic ganglia
Peptide amphiphile nanofiber hydrogel
Peripheral nerve regeneration
Schwann cells
Sonic hedgehog

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Bioengineering
Medicine (miscellaneous)
Molecular Medicine
Biomedical Engineering
Materials Science(all)
Pharmaceutical Science

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Peptide amphiphile delivery of sonic hedgehog protein promotes neurite formation in penile projecting neurons. / Dobbs, Ryan; Choe, Shawn; Kalmanek, Elizabeth; Harrington, Daniel A.; Stupp, Samuel I.; McVary, Kevin T.; Podlasek, Carol A.

In: Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology, and Medicine, Vol. 14, No. 7, 10.2018, p. 2087-2094.

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