Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 7, Issue 19, Pages 10386-10394Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b01433
Keywords
methacrylated gelatin; hydroxyapatite; modular tissue engineering osteon
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51273121, 51473098, 51373105, 81190131]
- National Basic Research Program of China [2011CB606201]
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Modular tissue engineering holds great potential in regenerating natural complex tissues by engineering three-dimensional modular scaffolds with predefined geometry and biological characters. In modular tissue-like Construction, a scaffold with an appropriate mechanical rigidity for assembling fabrication and high biocompatibility for,cell survival is the key to the successful bioconstruction. In this Work, a Series of composite hydrogels (GH0, GH1, GH2, and GH3) based on a combination of methacrylated gelatin (GelMA) and hydroxyapatite (HA) wag exploited to enhance hydrogel Mechanical rigidity and promote cell functional expression for osteon biofabrication. These composite hydrogels presented a lower swelling ratio, higher mechanical moduli, and better biocompatibility When compared to the pure GelMA hydrogel. Furthermore, on the basis of the composite hydrogel and photolithograph technology, We Successfully constructed an osteon-like concentric double-ring structure :in which the inner ring encapsulating human umbilical vascular endothelial Cells (HUVECs) was designed to imitate blood vessel tubule while the outer ring encapsulating human osteoblast-like cells (MG63s) acts as part of bone. During the coculture period, MG63s and HUVECs exhibited not only satisfying growth status but also the enhanced genic expression, of osteogenesis-related and angiogenesis-related differentiations. These results demonstrate this GelMA HA composite hydrogel system is promising for modular tissue engineering.
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