ArticleCalcified tissue international1994
Bioactive glass-ceramic containing crystalline apatite and wollastonite initiates biomineralization in bone cell cultures.
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- Advances in biomimetic collagen mineralisation and future approaches to bone tissue engineering.Biopolymers · 2023Review
- Biomaterial and implant induced ossification: in vitro and in vivo findings.Journal of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine · 2020Article
- CaSiOJournal of functional biomaterials · 2020Article
- Osteogenic potential of heterogeneous and CD271-enriched mesenchymal stromal cells cultured on apatite-wollastonite 3D scaffolds.BMC biomedical engineering · 2019Article
- Cell culture systems for studies of bone and tooth mineralization.Chemical reviews · 2008Review
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Abstract
Rat bone cells were cultured in the presence of bioactive glass-ceramic containing crystalline apatite and wollastonite. Scanning electron microscopy observations of the surface of the seeded ceramic disks revealed that cells attached, spread, and proliferated on the material surface. Soaking in cell-free culture medium showed that no change occurred in the surface structure. However, when cultured with bone cells and observed under a transmission electron microscope, an electron-dense layer was noted initially at the surface of the material, before bone formation occurred. In addition, energy-dispersive X-ray microanalysis demonstrated the presence of calcium and phosphorus in this layer. Progressively, during the following days of culture, active osteoblasts synthetized and laid down an osteoid matrix composed of numerous collagen fibrils arranged either parallel or perpendicularly to the first-formed electron-dense layer. Mineralization initiated on the ceramic surface dispersed then along the collagenous fibrils, leading to a mineralized matrix which surrounded the ceramic particles. These results demonstrate the capacity of apatite-wollastonite glass ceramic to initiate biomineralization in osteoblast cultures and to achieve a direct bond between the surface apatite layer of the bioactive glass-ceramic and the mineralized bone matrix.
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