TABLE 1.

Functions and properties of different polydopamine-modified biomaterials.

Cell type	Adhesion	Viability	Proliferation	Differentiation	Substrate	Surface modification	Author/year
Hippocampal neurons	(+)	(+)	/	/	Electrode, insulators	PDA/PLL	Kang et al., 2011
HSCs	(+)	/	(+)	(+)	PU/PDA/ECM	/	Chen et al., 2019
RSCs	(+)	(+)	(+)	/	SG-PCL, MG-PCL	PDA/RGD	Qian et al., 2018a
Mouse C2C12 myoblasts, PC12 neuronal cells	/	(+)	(+)	(+)	Electrodes	PDA/PPY	Kim et al., 2018
PC12 cells	(+)	(+)	(+)	(+)	/	PDA	Bhang et al., 2013
HNSCs	/	/	(+)	(+)	PS, PLGA	NGF, GDNF, YIGSR, RGD-PDA	Yang et al., 2012
RSCs	(+)	/	(+)	(+)	PCL	dECM/PDA	Chen C. et al., 2018
Primary postnatal mouse cerebellar neurons	(+)	(+)	/	(+)	PNF	PDA	Sieste et al., 2018
RNSCs	(+)	(+)	(+)	(+)	PDA-PLGA	NGF	Pan et al., 2018
RSCs	(+)	(+)	/	/	PLLA	PDA/CGO/PPY	Li et al., 2020
Rat PC12 cells, primary rat DRG neurons	/	(+)	/	/	Fe3O4⋅Rhodamine 6G	PDA	Wang et al., 2020
Rat PC12 cells	(+)	(+)	(+)	(+)	PLGA/CNT	PDA-lam	Nazeri et al., 2020
Rat PC12 cells	(+)	/	(+)	/	CC	PDA	Chen X. et al., 2018
Rat BMSCs and SCs	(+)	(+)	(+)	(+)	PCL/gold	PDA	Qian et al., 2018b

“(+)”, presentation of characteristics; PDA, polydopamine; PLL, poly-L-lysine; HSCs, human Schwann cells; PU, polyurethane; ECM, extracellular matrix; RSCs, rat Schwann cells; SG, single-layered graphene; MG, multi-layered graphene; PCL, polycaprolactone; RGD, arginyl glycylaspartic acid; PC12, pheochromocytoma 12; PPY, polypyrrole; HNSCs, human neural stem cells; PS, polystyrene; PLGA, poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid); dECM, decellularized extracellular matrix; PNF, peptide nanofiber; RNSCs, rat neural stem cells; NGF, nerve growth factor; PLLA, poly-l-lactic acid; CGO, carboxylic graphene oxide; DRG, dorsal root ganglia; CNT, carbon nanotube; lam, laminin; CC, carbonized cotton; BMSCs, bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells; SCs, Schwann cells.