Journal
JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS RESEARCH PART A
Volume 85A, Issue 2, Pages 371-377Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.31484
Keywords
tissue engineering; scaffold; scaffold architecture; scaffold geometry; factorial analysis
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Recent studies have shown that it is now possible to construct tissue-engineered bone repair scaffolds with tight pore size distributions and controlled geometries using 3-D Printing techniques QDP). This study evaluated two hydroxyapatite (HA) 8-mm diameter discs with controlled architectures in a rabbit trephine defect at 8 and 16 weeks using a 2 X 2 factorial design. Input parameters were time and scaffold void volume at two levels. Three output variables were extracted from MicroCT data: bone volume ingrowth with respect to total region of interest, bone volume ingrowth with respect to available ingrowth volume, and soft tissue volume. The experiment measured two groups-Group 1: 500-mu m X 500-mu m channels parallel to the scaffold's long axis and penetrating up 3-mm from the bottom. Group 2: 800-mu m X 800-mu m struts spaced 500 pm apart set perpendicularly to each other in each printed layer. Rendered 3-dimensional MicroCT scans and undecalcitied histological slides of implants revealed good integration with the surrounding tissue, and a sizeable amount of bone ingrowth into the device. Factorial analysis revealed that the effects of time were the greatest determinant of soft tissue ingrowth, while time and its interaction with void volume were the greatest determinants of bone volume ingrowth with respect to both total and available volume. (C) 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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