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Spirulina is a blue-green microalgae which is known to be safe food and pharmaceutical additive. There are many reports that Spiulina cell mass has functional ingredients such as anti-inflammatory, anti-metastasis and blood cholesterol reduction. Electrospinning is a novel technique to fabricate nanocale fiber mats which are porous mateials with high ratio of surface area to volume. Nanofiber matrix is suitable for cell adhesion, spreading and growth. Polycaprolactone (PCL),a biodegradable and biocompatible synthetic polymer, known to fabricate good nanofibers in electrospinning. In this result, we suggest an electrospun PCL-Spirulina nanofiber as an extracellular matrix for cell culture.
Acknowledgement This work was supported by INHA UNIVERSITY Reasearch Grant. (INHA-40875)