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RSC ADVANCES
Volume 12, Issue 16, Pages 9524-9533Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d2ra00311b
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51572206]
- Wuhan Huanghe Excellence Plan, National Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program for College Students [202110497032, 202110497033, S202110497080, 2022104970183, 2022104970186, 2022104970203]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [WUT: 2021IUA075]
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In this study, a bi-layer scaffold was designed and fabricated using drug-dispersed gelatin methacrylate (GELMA) hydrogel and drug-encapsulated coaxial fiber scaffold made from silk fiber (SF) and polylactic acid (PLA). This scaffold showed promising properties for cartilage tissue engineering, including suitable porosity, pore size, mechanical strength, and excellent drug release properties.
The incidence of articular cartilage defects is increasing year by year. In order to repair the cartilage tissue at the defect, scaffolds with nanofiber structure and biocompatibility have become a research hotspot. In this study, we designed and fabricated a bi-layer scaffold prepared from an upper layer of drug-dispersed gelatin methacrylate (GELMA) hydrogel and a lower layer of a drug-encapsulated coaxial fiber scaffold prepared from silk fiber (SF) and polylactic acid (PLA). These bi-layer scaffolds have porosity (91.26 +/- 3.94%) sufficient to support material exchange and pore size suitable for cell culture and infiltration, as well as mechanical properties (2.65 +/- 0.31 MPa) that meet the requirements of cartilage tissue engineering. The coaxial fiber structure exhibited excellent drug release properties, maintaining drug release for 14 days in PBS. In vitro experiments indicated that the scaffolds were not toxic to cells and were amenable to chondrocyte migration. Notably, the growth of cells in a bi-layer scaffold presented two states. In the hydrogel layer, cells grow through interconnected pores and take on a connective tissue-like shape. In the coaxial fiber layer, cells grow on the surface of the coaxial fiber mats and appeared tablet-like. This is similar to the structure of the functional partitions of natural cartilage tissue. Together, the bi-layer scaffold can play a positive role in cartilage regeneration, which could be a potential therapeutic choice to solve the current problems of clinical cartilage repair.
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