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JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS RESEARCH PART A
卷 89A, 期 4, 页码 865-875出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.32023
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biodegradable polymers; polycaprolactone; vascular grafts; electrospinning; nanofibers; in vivo study
Because of the severe increase of mortality by cardiovascular diseases, there has been rising interest among the tissue-engineering community for small-sized blood vessel Substitutes. Here we present small diameter vascular grafts made of slow degradable poly(epsilon-caprolactone) nanofibers obtained by electrospinning. The process was optimized by a factorial design approach that led to reproducible grafts with inner diameters of 2 and 4 mm, respectively. Fiber sizes, graft morphology, and the resulting tensile stress and tensile strain values were studied as a function of various parameters in order to obtain optimal vascular grafts for implantation after gamma-sterilization. The influence of polymer concentration, solvent, needle-collector distance, applied voltage, flow rate, and spinning time has been studied. Consequently, an optimized vascular graft was implanted as in abdominal aortic Substitute in nine rats for a feasibility Study. Results are given following LIP a 12-week implantation period showing good patency, endothelization, and cell ingrowth. (c) 2008 Wiley Peridicals, Inc. J Biomed Mater Res 89A: 865-875, 2009
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