Journal
ACTA BIOMATERIALIA
Volume 7, Issue 5, Pages 2007-2014Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2011.01.017
Keywords
Putty; Calcium phosphate; Gel; Osteoinduction; Dissolution
Funding
- Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs
- Netherlands Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
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To evaluate moldable osteoinductive putties for bone repair we combined microstructured biphasic calcium phosphate (BCP) particles with five different polymeric gels, carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC), Pluronic (R) F-127 (PLU), polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), chitosan (CHI) and alginate (ALG) In vitro gel dissolution showed that CMC. PLU and ALG gels dissolved rapidly (within hours), while the CHI gel took several days and the PVA gel did not dissolve within 2 weeks. Implanting the putty formulations into sheep muscle for 12 weeks demonstrated ectopic bone formation in the control BCP group as well as the putties prepared with dissolving gels (CMC, PLU, ALG and CHI). Bone was not seen in the putty comprising PVA. Quantitative data showed that the CMC and PLU gels did not significantly affect the osteoinductivity of BCP granules, while the ALG and CHI gels showed a significant decrease in bone formation These results suggest that the dissolvability and chemistry of the gels may be factors affecting the osteoinduction of the putties. (C) 2011 Acta Materialla Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved
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