Jianfei Cao, Chao Peng, Yan Lei, Haoming Wu, Shaojuan Xu, Qiyu Liu, Yi Liu, Mengjue Li, Yue Lu
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Abstract
Poly(lacticacid-ε-caprolactone) (PLCL) scaffolds face significant challenges in bone regeneration due to excessively slow degradation kinetics and inherent hydrophobicity. To overcome these limitations, we developed a novel ternary 3D-printed scaffold composed of PLCL, poly(p-dioxanone) (PPDO), and hydroxyapatite (HA) via fused deposition modeling (FDM) for the first time. The incorporation of PPDO would accelerate and enable tunable degradation of PLCL to match the bone healing timeline, while HA was aimed to enhance osteoinductivity and regulated the pH level to reduce adverse immune reactions of the acidic degradation products. The results demonstrated that degradation rate of the scaffolds was found to be modulated by PPDO and HA effectively. Moreover, the 3D printing extrusion enabled the porous scaffolds with customizability, diverse shapes, adjustable porosity and uniform pore sizes. In addition, proliferation and adhesion of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) as well as the expression of various osteogenic genes (ALP, Col-Ι, OCN, BMP-2, OPN) were also upregulated on the PLCL/PPDO/HA scaffolds. Therefore, these low-cost 3D-printed scaffolds may serve as an optimal bone graft for applications in bone tissue engineering.
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The Journal of Biomaterials Science, Polymer Edition publishes fundamental research on the properties of polymeric biomaterials and the mechanisms of interaction between such biomaterials and living organisms, with special emphasis on the molecular and cellular levels.
The scope of the journal includes polymers for drug delivery, tissue engineering, large molecules in living organisms like DNA, proteins and more. As such, the Journal of Biomaterials Science, Polymer Edition combines biomaterials applications in biomedical, pharmaceutical and biological fields.