Multifunctional Hybrid Three-dimensionally Woven Scaffolds for Cartilage Tissue Engineering

✍ Scribed by Franklin T. Moutos; Bradley T. Estes; Farshid Guilak

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 753 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1616-5187
• DOI: 10.1002/mabi.201000124

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The successful replacement of large‐scale cartilage defects or osteoarthritic lesions using tissue‐engineering approaches will likely require composite biomaterial scaffolds that have biomimetic mechanical properties and can provide cell‐instructive cues to control the growth and differentiation of embedded stem or progenitor cells. This study describes a novel method of constructing multifunctional scaffolds for cartilage tissue engineering that can provide both mechanical support and biological stimulation to seeded progenitor cells. 3‐D woven PCL scaffolds were infiltrated with a slurry of homogenized CDM of porcine origin, seeded with human ASCs, and cultured for up to 42 d under standard growth conditions. These constructs were compared to scaffolds derived solely from CDM as well as 3‐D woven PCL fabric without CDM. While all scaffolds promoted a chondrogenic phenotype of the ASCs, CDM scaffolds showed low compressive and shear moduli and contracted significantly during culture. Fiber‐reinforced CDM scaffolds and 3‐D woven PCL scaffolds maintained their mechanical properties throughout the culture period, while supporting the accumulation of a cartilaginous extracellular matrix. These findings show that fiber‐reinforced hybrid scaffolds can be produced with biomimetic mechanical properties as well as the ability to promote ASC differentiation and chondrogenesis in vitro.
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