Comparative study on the role of gelatin, chitosan and their combination as tissue engineered scaffolds on healing and regeneration of critical sized bone defects: an in vivo study

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• 作者：Ahmad Oryan ; Soodeh Alidadi…
• 刊名：Journal of Materials Science Materials in Medicine
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：October 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：27
• 期：10
• 全文大小：3,388 KB
• 刊物类别：Chemistry and Materials Science
• 刊物主题：Chemistry
  Biomaterials
  Characterization and Evaluation Materials
  Polymer Sciences
  Metallic Materials
  Ceramics,Glass,Composites,Natural Materials
  Surfaces and Interfaces and Thin Films
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-4838
• 卷排序：27

文摘

Gelatin and chitosan are natural polymers that have extensively been used in tissue engineering applications. The present study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of chitosan and gelatin or combination of the two biopolymers (chitosan–gelatin) as bone scaffold on bone regeneration process in an experimentally induced critical sized radial bone defect model in rats. Fifty radial bone defects were bilaterally created in 25 Wistar rats. The defects were randomly filled with chitosan, gelatin and chitosan–gelatin and autograft or left empty without any treatment (n = 10 in each group). The animals were examined by radiology and clinical evaluation before euthanasia. After 8 weeks, the rats were euthanized and their harvested healing bone samples were evaluated by radiology, CT-scan, biomechanical testing, gross pathology, histopathology, histomorphometry and scanning electron microscopy. Gelatin was biocompatible and biodegradable in vivo and showed superior biodegradation and biocompatibility when compared with chitosan and chitosan–gelatin scaffolds. Implantation of both the gelatin and chitosan–gelatin scaffolds in bone defects significantly increased new bone formation and mechanical properties compared with the untreated defects (P < 0.05). Combination of the gelatin and chitosan considerably increased structural and functional properties of the healing bones when compared to chitosan scaffold (P < 0.05). However, no significant differences were observed between the gelatin and gelatin–chitosan groups in these regards (P > 0.05). In conclusion, application of the gelatin alone or its combination with chitosan had beneficial effects on bone regeneration and could be considered as good options for bone tissue engineering strategies. However, chitosan alone was not able to promote considerable new bone formation in the experimentally induced critical-size radial bone defects.