Hydrogels for protein delivery in tissue engineering

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• 作者：Roberta Censi^a ; ^{roberta.censi@unicam.it} ; Piera Di Martino^a ; Tina Vermonden^b ; Wim E. Hennink^b
• 关键词：Hydrogels ; Growth factors ; Protein delivery ; Tissue engineering ; Controlled release
• 刊名：Journal of Controlled Release
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：25_01683659
• 类别：pha
• 出版时间：20 July, 2012
• 卷：161
• 期：2
• 页码：680-692
• 文件大小：1219 K

摘要

Tissue defects caused by diseases or trauma present enormous challenges in regenerative medicine. Recently, a better understanding of the biological processes underlying tissue repair led to the establishment of new approaches in tissue engineering which comprise the combination of biodegradable scaffolds and appropriate cells together with specific environmental cues, such as growth or adhesive factors. These factors (in fact proteins) have to be loaded and sustainably released from the scaffolds in time. This review provides an overview of the various hydrogel technologies that have been proposed to control the release of bioactive molecules of interest for tissue engineering applications.

In particular, after a brief introduction on bioactive protein drugs that have remarkable relevance for tissue engineering, this review will discuss their release mechanisms from hydrogels, their encapsulation and immobilization methods and will overview the main classes of hydrogel forming biomaterials used in vitro and in vivo to release them.

Finally, an outlook on future directions and a glimpse into the current clinical developments are provided.