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ArticleAdvanced healthcare materials2023

A Bioglass-Poly(lactic-co-glycolic Acid) Scaffold@Fibrin Hydrogel Construct to Support Endochondral Bone Formation.

Dhanalakshmi Jeyachandran, Monzur Murshed, Lisbet Haglund, Marta Cerruti

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Article in Advanced healthcare materials, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
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Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Dhanalakshmi JeyachandranDepartment of Mining and Materials Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, H3A 0C1, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-6760-9513
Monzur MurshedFaculty of Dentistry, Department of Medicine, and Shriners Hospital for Children, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, H4A 0A9, Canada.
Lisbet HaglundExperimental Surgery, McGill University, Montreal, H3G 2M1, Canada.
Marta CerrutiDepartment of Mining and Materials Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, H3A 0C1, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-8533-3071
McGill University · CAMontreal Children's Hospital · CA

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bone tissue engineering using stem cells to build bone directly on a scaffold matrix often fails due to lack of oxygen at the injury site. This may be avoided by following the endochondral ossification route; herein, a cartilage template is promoted first, which can survive hypoxic environments, followed by its hypertrophy and ossification. However, hypertrophy is so far only achieved using biological factors. This work introduces a Bioglass-Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid@fibrin (Bg-PLGA@fibrin) construct where a fibrin hydrogel infiltrates and encapsulates a porous Bg-PLGA. The hypothesis is that mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) loaded in the fibrin gel and induced into chondrogenesis degrade the gel and become hypertrophic upon reaching the stiffer, bioactive Bg-PLGA core, without external induction factors. Results show that Bg-PLGA@fibrin induces hypertrophy, as well as matrix mineralization and osteogenesis; it also promotes a change in morphology of the MSCs at the gel/scaffold interface, possibly a sign of osteoblast-like differentiation of hypertrophic chondrocytes. Thus, the Bg-PLGA@fibrin construct can sequentially support the different phases of endochondral ossification purely based on material cues. This may facilitate clinical translation by decreasing in-vitro cell culture time pre-implantation and the complexity associated with the use of external induction factors.

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OsteogenesisTissue ScaffoldsCeramicsChondrogenesisFibrinGlycolsHumansHydrogelsHypertrophyPolylactic Acid-Polyglycolic Acid CopolymerTissue EngineeringBioglassFibrinGlycolsHydrogelsPolylactic Acid-Polyglycolic Acid Copolymerbioglassesbone tissue engineeringendochondral ossificationhypertrophymaterial cues

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PMID37462089
PMCPMC11468889
OpenAlexW4384626027

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