Journal
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING C-MATERIALS FOR BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
Volume 123, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.msec.2021.112021
Keywords
Silver nanoparticles; Co-cultures; Biomaterial-associated infection; Biomaterials implants; Local drug delivery; Gentamicin
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- China Scholarship Council
- W.J. Kolff Institute, UMCG, Groningen, The Netherlands
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Titanium is commonly used for implants, but bacterial contamination during surgery can prevent surface coverage by mammalian cells, leading to implant failure. Efforts to kill contaminating bacteria and promote surface coverage are being researched, with low-level gentamicin-loading showing promise as a local antibiotic delivery system. Care must be taken when loading nanotubular titanium surfaces with Ag nanoparticles to avoid tissue-cell death.
Titanium is frequently used for dental implants, percutaneous pins and screws or orthopedic joint prostheses. Implant surfaces can become peri-operatively contaminated by surgically introduced bacteria during implantation causing lack of surface coverage by mammalian cells and subsequent implant failure. Especially implants that have to function in a bacteria-laden environment such as dental implants or percutaneous pins, cannot be surgically implanted while being kept sterile. Accordingly, contaminating bacteria adhering to implant surfaces hamper successful surface coverage by mammalian cells required for long-term functioning. Here, nanotubular titanium surfaces were prepared and loaded with Ag nanoparticles or gentamicin with the aim of killing contaminating bacteria in order to favor surface coverage by mammalian cells. In mono-cultures, unloaded nanotubules did not cause bacterial killing, but loading of Ag nanoparticles or gentamicin reduced the number of adhering Staphylococcus aureus or Pseudomonas aeruginosa CFUs. A gentamicin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis was only killed upon loading with Ag nanoparticles. However, unlike low-level gentamicin loading, loading with Ag nanoparticles also caused tissue-cell death. In bi-cultures, low-level gentamicin-loading of nanotubular titanium surfaces effectively eradicated contaminating bacteria favoring surface coverage by mammalian cells. Thus, care must be taken in loading nanotubular titanium surfaces with Ag nanoparticles, while low-level gentamicin-loaded nanotubular titanium surfaces can be used as a local antibiotic delivery system to negate failure of titanium implants due to peri-operatively introduced, contaminating bacteria without hampering surface coverage by mammalian cells.
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