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BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS
Volume 6, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1748-6041/6/1/015012
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- Japan Science and Technology Agency
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [23240070] Funding Source: KAKEN
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The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of increased collagen-matrix density on the mechanical properties and in vivo absorbability of porous hydroxyapatite (HAp)-collagen composites as artificial bone materials. Seven types of porous HAp-collagen composites were prepared from HAp nanocrystals and dense collagen fibrils. Their densities and HAp/collagen weight ratios ranged from 122 to 331 mg cm(-3) and from 20/80 to 80/20, respectively. The flexural modulus and strength increased with an increase in density, reaching 2.46 +/- 0.48 and 0.651 +/- 0.103 MPa, respectively. The porous composites with a higher collagen-matrix density exhibited much higher mechanical properties at the same densities, suggesting that increasing the collagen-matrix density is an effective way of improving the mechanical properties. It was also suggested that other structural factors in addition to collagen-matrix density are required to achieve bone-like mechanical properties. The in vivo absorbability of the composites was investigated in bone defects of rabbit femurs, demonstrating that the absorption rate decreased with increases in the composite density. An exhaustive increase in density is probably limited by decreases in absorbability as artificial bones.
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