Journal
JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS RESEARCH PART A
Volume 102, Issue 2, Pages 400-412Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.34697
Keywords
biodegradation; hydrogel; porosity; controlled drug release; cell viability; scaffold
Funding
- National Science Foundation [0814194]
- Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America
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Poly(-amino ester) (PBAE) biodegradable hydrogel systems have garnered much attention in recent years due to their appealing properties for biomedical applications. These hydrogel systems exhibit properties similar to natural soft tissue, degrade in aqueous environments, and have easily tunable properties that have been well studied and understood. In most cases, tissue engineering scaffolds must possess a three-dimensional interconnected porous network for tissue ingrowth and construct vascularization. Here, PBAE properties were explored and systems were selected to serve as both the pore-forming agent and the outer matrix of a scaffold that exhibits controlled pore opening upon degradation. To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of a biodegradable hydrogel porogen system entrapped in a degradable hydrogel outer matrix. Scaffolds were prepared, and the degradation, compressive moduli, and porosity were analyzed. An added advantage of a degradable porogen is the potential for controlled drug release, and a model protein was released from the porogen particles to demonstrate this application. Finally, pluripotent cells seeded onto predegraded scaffolds were viable during the first 24 h of exposure, and furthermore, cell tracking confirmed the presence of cells within the pores of the scaffold. Overall, these present studies demonstrate the possibility of using these biodegradable hydrogel porogen-matrix systems as tissue engineering scaffolding materials. (c) 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Biomed Mater Res Part A: 102A: 400-412, 2014.
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