The application of atelocollagen gel in combination with porous scaffolds for cartilage tissue engineering and its suitable conditions
The application of atelocollagen gel in combination with porous scaffolds for cartilage tissue engineering and its suitable conditions
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DOI:
10.1002/jbm.a.32509
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发表时间:
2010-04-01
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4.9
通讯作者:
Hoshi, K.
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作者:
Yamaoka, H.;Tanaka, Y.;Hoshi, K.
For improving the quality of tissue-engineered cartilage, we examined the in vivo usefulness of porous bodies as scaffolds combined with an ateolocollagen hydrogel and investigated the suitable conditions for atelocollagen and seeding cells within the engineered tissues. We made tissue-engineered constructs using a collagen sponge (CS) or porous poly(L-lactide) (PLLA) with human chondrocytes and 1% hydrogel, the concentration of which maximized the accumulation of cartilage matrices. The CS was soft with a Young's modulus of less than 1 MPa, whereas the porous PLLA was very rigid with a Young's modulus of 10 MPa. Although the constructs with the CS shrank to 50% in size after a 2-month subcutaneous transplantation in nude mice, the PLLA constructs maintained their original sizes. Both of the porous scaffolds contained some cartilage regeneration in the presence of the chondrocytes and hydrogel, but the PLLA counterpart significantly accumulated abundant matrices in vivo. Regarding the conditions of the chondrocytes, the cartilage regeneration was improved in inverse proportion to the passage numbers among passages 3-8,and was linear with the cells densities (10(6) to 10(8) cells/mL). Thus, the rigid porous scaffold can maintain the size of the tissue-engineered cartilage and realize fair cartilage regeneration in vivo when combined with 1%, atelocollagen and some conditioned chondrocytes. (C) 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Biomed Mater Res 93A: 123-132,2010