BIOPOLYMERS
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2018
·Vol. 109
·期 7
·e23223
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IF 1.99
Yue Yang,Zuyuan Luo,Ying Zhao
The scaffolds for stem cell-based bone tissue engineering should hold the ability to guide stem cells osteo-differentiating. Otherwise, stem cells will differentiate into unwanted cell types or will form tumors in vivo. Alginate, a natural polysaccharide with great biocompatibility, was widely used in biomedical applications. However, the limited bioactivity and poor osteogenesis capability of pristine alginate hampered its further application in tissue engineering. In this work, a bone forming peptide-1 (BFP-1), derived from bone morphogenetic protein-7, was grafted to alginate polymer chains to prepare peptide-decorated alginate porous scaffolds (pep-APS) for promoting osteo-differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs). SEM images of pep-APS exhibited porous structure with about 90% porosity (pore size 100–300 μm), which was appropriate for hMSCs ingrowth. The adhesion, proliferation and aggregation of hMSCs grown on pep-APS were enhanced in vitro. Moreover, pep-APS promoted the alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity of hMSCs, and the osteo-related genes expression was obviously up-regulated. The immunochemical staining and western blot analysis results showed high expression level of OCN and Col1a1 in the hMSCs grown on pep-APS. This work provided a facile and valid strategy to endow the alginate polymers themselves with specific bioactivity and prepare osteopromoting scaffold with enhanced osteogenesis ability, possessing potential applications in stem cell therapy and regenerative medicine. Graphical
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组织工程
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干细胞生物学
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材料科学
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生物医学工程
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RSC Advances
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2018
·Vol. 8
·期 48
·27191-27200
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IF 2.936
Qinli Xu,Ye Li,Yuhang Zhu,Kunchi Zhao,Rui Gu,Qingsan Zhu
Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) and hydroxyapatite (HA) are considered potential osteoinductive materials because of their biodegradability and mineralization features. However, the hydrophobicity of scaffold surfaces is less supportive of cell attachment and proliferation because of poor wettability. The mode of binding of growth factors to the scaffold also affects cell differentiation into osteoblasts. The half-life of a growth factor in vivo can be increased by binding the factor to the scaffold surface. In this work, we prepared a porous PLGA/HA scaffold grafted with recombinant human bone morphogenic protein-7 (rhBMP-7) attached via polydopamine (pDA) for bone repair. The pDA coated PLGA/HA (pDA-PLGA/HA) scaffolds were characterized by energy dispersive X-ray analysis and Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy. The microstructure and porosity of PLGA/HA scaffolds were analyzed by scanning electron microscopy and micro-computed tomography. The release profile of rhBMP-7 grafted onto the pDA-PLGA/HA (pDA-PLGA/HA/BMP-7) scaffolds was examined for 21 days. The attachment efficiency, cell proliferation rate, alkaline phosphatase activity, calcium deposition, and osteoblast-related gene expression of bone marrow-derived stem cells to PLGA/HA, pDA-PLGA/HA, and pDA-PLGA/HA/BMP-7 scaffolds were evaluated. To assess the ability of bone repair in vivo, scaffolds were implanted into critical-sized calvarial defects created in mice, and the in vivo tissue-engineered bone was monitored by micro-computed tomography and histology. In vivo experiments revealed rapid healing of the defects treated with the pDA-PLGA/HA/BMP-7 scaffolds compared with pDA-PLGA/HA and PLGA/HA scaffolds at week 8 post-surgery. These results collectively demonstrate that the rhBMP-7-immobilized PLGA/HA scaffold via pDA is a promising candidate for calvarial repair.
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生物医学工程
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骨科
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BIOMATERIALS
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2016
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IF 8.387
Zhentao Man,Xiaoqing Hu,Zhenlong Liu,Hongjie Huang,Qingyang Meng,Xin Zhang,Linghui Dai,Jiying Zhang,Xin Fu,Xiaoning Duan,Chunyan Zhou,Yingfang Ao
Cartilage tissue engineering is the hotspot of cartilage repair. The allogenic chondrocytes appear to be a promising source of seed cells in cartilage tissue engineering. In this study, we aimed to transplant allogenic chondrocytes with chitosan hydrogel (CS)-demineralized bone matrix (DBM) hybrid scaffold (CS/DBM) to repair rabbit cartilage injury with one-step operation. After the CS/DBM scaffold was successfully fabricated, it showed that the porous CS filled the large pores of DBM, which improved the distribution of seed cells in the CS/DBM scaffold. The allogenic chondrocytes at second passage were transplanted with different scaffolds to repair rabbit cartilage injury. Twenty-four weeks after surgery, the cartilage defect in the CS/DBM group was successfully filled as shown by MRI. Moreover, the histological score of CS/DBM group was significantly higher than that of the other groups. On the aspect of biomechanical property , the regenerated cartilage in the CS/DBM group were superior to those in the other groups as determined by nanoindentation . Meanwhile, no obvious inflammatory response was observed after the transplantation of allogenic chondrocytes at 24 weeks post-surgery. Furtherly, gene expression profile for cells within the repair tissue was compared with the allogenic chondrocytes before transplantation using Agilent microarray and RT-qPCR. The results showed that some genes beneficial to cartilage regeneration, such as BMP-7, HGF , and IGF-1, were upregulated one month after transplantation. Consequently, our study demonstrated that the transplantation of allogenic chondrocytes with CS/DBM scaffold successfully repaired rabbit cartilage injury with only one-step operation, thereby providing new insights into cartilage tissue engineering.
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