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Janmohammadi M, Doostmohammadi N, Bahraminasab M, Nourbakhsh MS, Arab S, Asgharzade S, Ghanbari A, Satari A. Evaluation of new bone formation in critical-sized rat calvarial defect using 3D printed polycaprolactone/tragacanth gum-bioactive glass composite scaffolds. Int J Biol Macromol 2024; 270:132361. [PMID: 38750857 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2024.132361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2024] [Revised: 03/13/2024] [Accepted: 05/11/2024] [Indexed: 05/20/2024]
Abstract
Critical-sized bone defects are a major challenge in reconstructive bone surgery and usually fail to be treated due to limited remaining bone quality and extensive healing time. The combination of 3D-printed scaffolds and bioactive materials is a promising approach for bone tissue regeneration. In this study, 3D-printed alkaline-treated polycaprolactone scaffolds (M-PCL) were fabricated and integrated with tragacanth gum- 45S5 bioactive glass (TG-BG) to treat critical-sized calvarial bone defects in female adult Wistar rats. After a healing period of four and eight weeks, the new bone of blank, M-PCL, and M-PCL/TG-BG groups were harvested and assessed. Micro-computed tomography, histological, biochemical, and biomechanical analyses, gene expression, and bone matrix formation were used to assess bone regeneration. The micro-computed tomography results showed that the M-PCL/TG-BG scaffolds not only induced bone tissue formation within the bone defect but also increased BMD and BV/TV compared to blank and M-PCL groups. According to the histological analysis, there was no evidence of bony union in the calvarial defect regions of blank groups, while in M-PCL/TG-BG groups bony integration and repair were observed. The M-PCL/TG-BG scaffolds promoted the Runx2 and collagen type I expression as compared with blank and M-PCL groups. Besides, the bone regeneration in M-PCL/TG-BG groups correlated with TG-BG incorporation. Moreover, the use of M-PCL/TG-BG scaffolds promoted the biomechanical properties in the bone remodeling process. These data demonstrated that the M-PCL/TG-BG scaffolds serve as a highly promising platform for the development of bone grafts, supporting bone regeneration with bone matrix formation, and osteogenic features. Our results exhibited that the 3D-printed M-PCL/TG-BG scaffolds are a promising strategy for successful bone regeneration.
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- Mahsa Janmohammadi
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of New Sciences and Technologies, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran
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- Department of Tissue Engineering and Applied Cell Sciences, School of Medicine, Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran
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- Department of Tissue Engineering and Applied Cell Sciences, School of Medicine, Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran; Nervous System Stem Cells Research Center, Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran.
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- Department of Tissue Engineering and Applied Cell Sciences, School of Medicine, Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran
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- Molecular Research Center, Basic Health Sciences Institute, Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences, Shahrekord, Iran; Department of Molecular Medicine, of Advanced Technologies, Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences, Shahrekord, Iran
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- Research Center of Physiology, Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, of Advanced Technologies, Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences, Shahrekord, Iran
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Huang P, Yang P, Liu K, Tao W, Tao J, Ai F. Evaluation of 'surgery-friendly' bone scaffold characteristics: 3D printed ductile BG/PCL scaffold with high inorganic content to repair critical bone defects. Biomed Mater 2022; 18. [PMID: 36317271 DOI: 10.1088/1748-605x/ac9e34] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2022] [Accepted: 10/27/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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The repair of irregular and complex critical bone defects remains a challenge in clinical practice. The application of 3D-printed bioceramics particle/polymer composite scaffolds in bone tissue engineering has been widely studied. At present, the inorganic particle content of the composite scaffolds is generally low, resulting in poor osteogenic activity. However, scaffold with high inorganic content are highly brittle, difficult to operate during surgery, and cannot be in close contact with surrounding bones. Therefore, it is of great significance to design a 'surgery-friendly' scaffold with high bioceramic content and good ductility. In this study, we used the solvent method to add high concentration (wt% 70%) bioglass (BG) into polycaprolactone (PCL), and polyethylene glycol was used as plasticizer to prepare 70% BG/PCL composite scaffolds with high ductility using 3D printing technology.In vitroexperiments showed that the scaffold had good mechanical properties: easy extension, easy folding and strong compressive resistance. It also showed good performance in biocompatibility and osteogenic activity. It was further observed that compared with pure BG or PCL implantation, the scaffold with higher BG content could have more new bone tissue appeared after 12 weeks. All these results indicate that 3D-printed 70% BG/PCL scaffolds have great potential for personalized repair of bone defects.
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- Pengren Huang
- Department of Orthopaedics, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Orthopaedics, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Orthopaedics, Guixi Dongxin Hospital, Yingtan 335400, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Orthopaedics, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Orthopaedics, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, People's Republic of China
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- School of Advanced Manufacturing, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, People's Republic of China
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Experimental Analysis of the Enzymatic Degradation of Polycaprolactone: Microcrystalline Cellulose Composites and Numerical Method for the Prediction of the Degraded Geometry. MATERIALS 2021; 14:ma14092460. [PMID: 34068502 PMCID: PMC8125986 DOI: 10.3390/ma14092460] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2021] [Revised: 05/02/2021] [Accepted: 05/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The degradation rate of polycaprolactone (PCL) is a key issue when using this material in Tissue Engineering or eco-friendly packaging sectors. Although different PCL-based composite materials have been suggested in the literature and extensively tested in terms of processability by material extrusion additive manufacturing, little attention has been paid to the influence of the fillers on the mechanical properties of the material during degradation. This work analyses the possibility of tuning the degradation rate of PCL-based filaments by the introduction of microcrystalline cellulose into the polymer matrix. The enzymatic degradation of the composite and pure PCL materials were compared in terms of mass loss, mechanical properties, morphology and infrared spectra. The results showed an increased degradation rate of the composite material due to the presence of the filler (enhanced interaction with the enzymes). Additionally, a new numerical method for the prediction of the degraded geometry was developed. The method, based on the Monte Carlo Method in an iterative process, adjusts the degradation probability according to the exposure of each discretized element to the degradation media. This probability is also amplified depending on the corresponding experimental mass loss, thus allowing a good fit to the experimental data in relatively few iterations.
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Mendibil X, Ortiz R, Sáenz de Viteri V, Ugartemendia JM, Sarasua JR, Quintana I. High Throughput Manufacturing of Bio-Resorbable Micro-Porous Scaffolds Made of Poly(L-lactide-co-ε-caprolactone) by Micro-Extrusion for Soft Tissue Engineering Applications. Polymers (Basel) 2019; 12:E34. [PMID: 31878300 PMCID: PMC7023538 DOI: 10.3390/polym12010034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2019] [Revised: 12/18/2019] [Accepted: 12/22/2019] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Porous scaffolds made of elastomeric materials are of great interest for soft tissue engineering. Poly(L-lactide-co-ε-caprolactone) (PLCL) is a bio-resorbable elastomeric copolymer with tailorable properties, which make this material an appropriate candidate to be used as scaffold for vascular, tendon, and nerve healing applications. Here, extrusion was applied to produce porous scaffolds of PLCL, using NaCl particles as a leachable agent. The effects of the particle proportion and size on leaching performance, dimensional stability, mechanical properties, and ageing of the scaffolds were analyzed. The efficiency of the particle leaching and scaffold swelling when wet were observed to be dependent on the porogenerator proportion, while the secant moduli and ultimate tensile strengths were dependent on the pore size. Porosity, swelling, and mechanical properties of the extruded scaffolds were tailorable, varying with the proportion and size of porogenerator particles and showed similar values to human soft tissues like nerves and veins (E = 7-15 MPa, σu = 7 MPa). Up to 300-mm length micro-porous PLCL tube with 400-µm thickness wall was extruded, proving extrusion as a high-throughput manufacturing process to produce tubular elastomeric bio-resorbable porous scaffolds of unrestricted length with tunable mechanical properties.
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- IK4-TEKNIKER, C/IñakiGoenaga 5, 20600 Eibar, Spain; (X.M.)
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- Department of Mining-Metallurgy Engineering and Materials Science, School of Engineering, University of the Basque Country (EHU-UPV), 48013 Bilbao, Spain (J.-R.S.)
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- Department of Mining-Metallurgy Engineering and Materials Science, School of Engineering, University of the Basque Country (EHU-UPV), 48013 Bilbao, Spain (J.-R.S.)
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- IK4-TEKNIKER, C/IñakiGoenaga 5, 20600 Eibar, Spain; (X.M.)
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Li X, Yin HM, Luo E, Zhu S, Wang P, Zhang Z, Liao GQ, Xu JZ, Li ZM, Li JH. Accelerating Bone Healing by Decorating BMP-2 on Porous Composite Scaffolds. ACS APPLIED BIO MATERIALS 2019; 2:5717-5726. [PMID: 35021565 DOI: 10.1021/acsabm.9b00761] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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- Xiang Li
- State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases & National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases & Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Guanghua School of Stomatology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510055, China
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- College of Polymer Science and Engineering and State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases & National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases & Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases & National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases & Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases & National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases & Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases & National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases & Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
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- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Guanghua School of Stomatology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510055, China
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- College of Polymer Science and Engineering and State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
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- College of Polymer Science and Engineering and State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases & National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases & Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
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Li X, Yin HM, Su K, Zheng GS, Mao CY, Liu W, Wang P, Zhang Z, Xu JZ, Li ZM, Liao GQ. Polydopamine-Assisted Anchor of Chitosan onto Porous Composite Scaffolds for Accelerating Bone Regeneration. ACS Biomater Sci Eng 2019; 5:2998-3006. [PMID: 33405654 DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.9b00209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Surface function has an importance for the bioactivity of porous polymeric scaffolds. The goal of the present study is to immobilize highly bioactive chitosan (CS) onto the surface of porous composite scaffolds to accelerate bone regeneration. Porous poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL)/bioactive glass (BG) composite scaffolds with strong anchor of CS were fabricated via mussel-inspired polydopamine (PDA) coating as a bridging layer. In vitro cell culture showed that firm immobilization of CS onto the composite scaffolds significantly enhanced protein adsorption, cell adhesion, and osteogenic differentiation compared to CS-decorated scaffolds via physical adsorption. In vivo assessments demonstrated that covalent immobilization of CS onto the surface of scaffolds obviously promoted cranial bone regeneration in comparison with the counterparts with physical adsorption of CS. The proposed method offers a feasible and effective means to fabricate artificial bioactive scaffolds for bone tissue engineering application.
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- Xiang Li
- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Guanghua School of Stomatology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510055, China
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- College of Polymer Science and Engineering and State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
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- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Guanghua School of Stomatology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510055, China
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- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Guanghua School of Stomatology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510055, China
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- College of Polymer Science and Engineering and State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
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- College of Polymer Science and Engineering and State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases & National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases & Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases & National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases & Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
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- College of Polymer Science and Engineering and State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
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- College of Polymer Science and Engineering and State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
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- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Guanghua School of Stomatology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510055, China
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