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APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
Volume 320, Issue -, Pages 161-170Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2014.08.160
Keywords
Titanium dioxide; Nanowires; Thermal oxidation; Osteogenic; Surface modification
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- Ministry of Higher Education of Malaysia through High Impact Research Grant [UM.C/HIR/MOHE/ENG/44]
- University of Malaya on Postgraduate Research Fund [PV 102/2012A]
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Titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanowire surface structures were fabricated in situ by a thermal oxidation process, and their ability to enhance the osteogenic potential of primary osteoblasts was investigated. Human osteoblasts were isolated from nasal bone and cultured on a TiO2 nanowires coated substrate to assess its in vitro cellular interaction. Bare featureless Ti-6A1-4V substrate was used as a control surface. Initial cell adhesion, cell proliferation, cell differentiation, cell mineralization, and osteogenic related gene expression were examined on the TiO2 nanowire surfaces as compared to the control surfaces after 2 weeks of culturing. Cell adhesion and cell proliferation were assayed by field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM) and Alamar Blue reduction assay, respectively. The nanowire surfaces promoted better cell adhesion and spreading than the control surface, as well as leading to higher cell proliferation. Our results showed that osteoblasts grown onto the TiO2 nanowire surfaces displayed significantly higher production levels of alkaline phosphatase (ALP), extracellular (ECM) mineralization and genes expression of runt-related transcription factor (Runx2), bone sialoprotein (BSP), ostoepontin (OPN) and osteocalcin (OCN) compared to the control surfaces. This suggests the potential use of such surface modification on Ti-6A1-4V substrates as a promising means to improve the osteointegration of titanium based implants. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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