Journal
JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS RESEARCH PART B-APPLIED BIOMATERIALS
Volume 103, Issue 7, Pages 1433-1444Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jbm.b.33318
Keywords
stainless steel; metal ions; bone; osteogenesis; bioactive material
Funding
- National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) [2012CB619101]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81301329]
- Shenyang National Lab for Materials Science
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A newly developed copper-bearing stainless steel (Cu-SS) by directly immobilizing proper amount of Cu into a medical stainless steel (317L SS) during the metallurgical process could enable continuous release of trace amount of Cu2+ ions, which play the key role to offer the multibiofunctions of the stainless steel, including the osteogenic ability in the present study. The results of in vitro experiments clearly demonstrated that Cu2+ ions from Cu-SS could promote the osteogenic differentiation by stimulating the Alkaline phosphatase enzyme activity and the osteogenic gene expressions (Col1a1, Opn, and Runx2), and enhancing the adhesion and proliferation of osteoblasts cultured on its surface. The in vivo test further proved that more new bone tissue formed around the Cu-SS implant with more stable bone-to-implant contact in comparison with the 317L SS. In addition, Cu-SS showed satisfied bio- compatibility according to the results of in vitro cytotoxicity and in vivo histocompatibility, and its daily released amount of Cu2- ions in physiological saline solution was at trace level of ppb order (1.4 ppb/cm(2)), which is rather safe to human health. Apart from these results, it was also found that Cu-SS could inhibit the happening of inflammation with lower TNF-(x expression in the bone tissue post implantation compared with 317L SS. In addition to good biocompatibility, the overall findings demonstrated that the Cu-SS possessed obvious ability of promoting osteogenesis, indicating a unique application advantage in orthopedics. (C) 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Blamed Mater Res Part B: Appl Biomater, 103B: 1433-1444,2015.
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