Designing Porous Bone Tissue Engineering Scaffolds with Enhanced Mechanical Properties from Composite Hydrogels Composed of Modified Alginate, Gelatin, and Bioactive Glass

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• 作者：Bapi Sarker ; Wei Li ; Kai Zheng ; Rainer Detsch ; Aldo R. Boccaccini
• 刊名：ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 12, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：2
• 期：12
• 页码：2240-2254
• 全文大小：1001K
• ISSN：2373-9878

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The combination of biodegradable polymers and bioactive inorganic materials is being widely used for designing bone tissue engineering scaffolds. Here we report a composite hydrogel system composed of bioactive glass incorporated in covalently cross-linked oxidized alginate-gelatin hydrogel (ADA-GEL) for designing porous scaffolds with tunable stiffness and degradability using freeze-drying technique. Because of the presence of bioactive glass, the cross-linking kinetic and cross-linking degree of the hydrogels are significantly increased, which is the main factor for the measured enhanced mechanical strength of the bioactive glass containing ADA-GEL scaffolds. The hydrogels with high cross-linking degree exhibit low protein release profile and low degradability. Apatite formation on bioactive glass containing hydrogel-based scaffolds is confirmed by FTIR. Bone marrow-derived stromal cell growth is promoted in pristine ADA-GEL and 1% bioactive glass containing ADA-GEL scaffolds compared to the scaffolds of pure alginate, alginate–gelatin blended hydrogel, and 5% bioactive glass containing ADA-GEL. Initial studies indicated that the scaffolds, especially without bioactive glass, support osteogenic differentiation of murine bone marrow stromal cell line in the absence of foreign osteogenic stimulating supplements; however, they exhibit low levels of osteogenic expression.