Journal
BIOMATERIALS
Volume 64, Issue -, Pages 57-69Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2015.06.031
Keywords
Bone healing; Fracture fixation; High-purity magnesium; Load-bearing; Osseointegration
Funding
- Natural Science Foundation of China [51271117, 81371935]
- National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) [2012CB619102]
- Biomedical program of Science and Technology innovation project by Shanghai [14441901800, 14441901802]
- Doctoral Innovation Fund of the Medical College of Shanghai Jiao Tong University [BXJ201240]
- Jiangsu Nature Science Foundation [BK2012206]
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High-purity magnesium (HP Mg) takes advantage in no alloying toxic elements and slower degradation rate in lack of second phases and micro-galvanic corrosion. In this study, as rolled HP Mg was fabricated into screws and went through in vitro immersion tests, cytotoxicity test and bioactive analysis. The HP Mg screws performed uniform corrosion behavior in vitro, and its extraction promoted cell viability, bone alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity, and mRNA expression of osteogenic differentiation related gene, i.e. ALP, osteopontin (OPN) and RUNX2 of human bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (hBMSCs). Then HP Mg screws were implanted in vivo as load-bearing implant to fix bone fracture and subsequently gross observation, range of motion (ROM), X-ray scanning, qualitative micro-computed tomography (mu CT) analysis, histological analysis, bending-force test and SEM morphology of retrieved screws were performed respectively at 4, 8, 16 and 24 weeks. As a result, the retrieved HP Mg screws in fixation of rabbit femoral intracondylar fracture showed uniform degradation morphology and enough bending force. However, part of PLLA screws was broken in bolt, although its screw thread was still intact. Good osseointegration was revealed surrounding HP Mg screws and increased bone volume and bone mineral density were detected at fracture gap, indicating the rigid fixation and enhanced fracture healing process provided by HP Mg screws. Consequently, the HP Mg showed great potential as internal fixation devices in intra-articular fracture operation. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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