Effect of a scaffold fabricated thermally from acetylated PLGA on the formation of engineered cartilage |
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Authors: | Kang Sun-Woong Lee Suk-Jun Kim Jin-Su Choi Eun-Hee Cha Byung-Hyun Shim Jin-Hyung Cho Dong-Woo Lee Soo-Hong |
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Affiliation: | Department of Biomedical Science, CHA University, Seoul 135-081, Korea. |
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Abstract: | A MHDS has been employed to fabricate 3D scaffolds from PLGA with acetyl endgroups to achieve in vivo regeneration of cartilage tissue. The fabricated acetylated-PLGA scaffold showed open pores and interconnected structures. Rabbit chondrocytes were seeded on the PLGA scaffolds and transplanted immediately into subcutaneous sites of athymic mice. Chondrocytes transplantation with untreated PLGA scaffolds served as a control. Histological analysis of the implants at 4 weeks with H&E staining and alcian blue staining revealed higher extracellular matrix and GAG expression at the neocartilage in the PLGA-6Ac scaffolds than that of the PLGA-6OH scaffold group. This endgroup-modified scaffold may be useful for successful cartilage tissue engineering in orthopedic applications. |
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Keywords: | biodegradable biological applications of polymers biomaterials degradation tissue engineering |
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