A composite chitosan-gelatin bi-layered, biomimetic macroporous scaffold for blood vessel tissue engineering
A composite chitosan-gelatin bi-layered, biomimetic macroporous scaffold for blood vessel tissue engineering
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DOI:
10.1016/j.carbpol.2016.09.095
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发表时间:
2017-02-10
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11.2
通讯作者:
Pillay, Viness
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作者:
Badhe, Ravindra V.;Bijukumar, Divya;Pillay, Viness
A composite chitosan-gelatin macroporous hydrogel-based scaffold with bi-layered tubular architecture was engineered by solvent casting-co-particulate leaching.The scaffold constituted an inner macroporous layer concealed by a non-porous outer layer mimicking the 3D matrix of blood vessels with cellular adhesion and proliferation. The scaffold was evaluated for its morphological, physicochemical, physicomechanical and biodurability properties employing SEM, FTIR, DSC, XRD, porositometry, rheology and texture analysis. The fluid uptake and biodegradation in the presence of lysozymes was also investigated. Cellular attachment and proliferation was analysed using human dermal fibroblasts (HDF-a) seeded onto the scaffold and evaluated by MTT assay, SEM, and confocal microscopy. Results demonstrated that the scaffold had a desirable tensile strength = 95.81 +/- 11 kPa, elongation at break 112.5 +/- 13%, porosity 82% and pores between 100 and 230 mu m, 50% in vitro biodegradation at day 16 and proliferated fibroblasts over 20 days. These results demonstrate that scaffold may be an excellent tubular archetype for blood vessel tissue engineering. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.