Eagle Medium/Nutrient Mixture F-12 (DMEM/F-12), T-medium, penicillin/streptomycin,
trypsin-EDTA,
kit, and Quant-iT PicoGreen dsDNA Assay kit were obtained from Life
Technologies (Grand Island, NY). Fetal bovine serum (FBS) was obtained
from Atlanta Biologicals (Flowery Branch, GA). Phosphate buffered
saline (PBS) was obtained from Lonza (Walkersville, MD). ACCUMAX was
obtained from eBioscience (San Diego, CA). Thiol-modified HA (HA-SH,
Glycosil, average Mw = 240 kDa, degree
of thiolation = 1 μmol/mg HA-SH) and poly(ethylene glycol)-diacrylate
(PEG-DA, Extralink, average Mw = 3350
Da) were obtained from BioTime Inc. (Alameda, CA). This HA-SH/PEG-DA
hydrogel system previously has been characterized extensively.15 (link)−17 (link) Docetaxel was obtained from Selleck Chemicals (Houston, TX). DMSO,
(St. Louis, MO). Primary antibodies used were human-specific anti-nuclei
antibody from Millipore (MAB1281, Billerica, MA), anti-androgen receptor
from Santa Cruz Biotechnology (sc-816, Dallas, TX), anti-cleaved caspase-3
from Cell Signaling Technology (NB110–89717, Danver, MA), and
anti-Ki-67 from Novus Biologicals (#9664S, Littleton,
CO). Sylgard 184 poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) elastomer kit was from
Dow Corning (Midland, MI).