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  • Silicate bioceramics induce angiogenesis during bone regeneration. 21964215

    The capacity to induce rapid vascular ingrowth during new bone formation is an important feature of biomaterials that are to be used for bone regeneration. Akermanite, a Ca-, Mg- and Si-containing bioceramic, has been demonstrated to be osteoinductive and to promote bone repair. This study further demonstrates the ability of akermanite to promote angiogenesis and investigates the mechanism of this behavior. The akermanite ion extract predominantly caused Si-ion-stimulated proliferation of human aortic endothelial cells. The Si ion in the extract was the most important component for the effect and the most effective concentration was found to be 0.6-2 μg ml(-1). In this range of Si ion concentration, the stimulating effect of the ceramic ion extract was demonstrated by the morphology of cells at the primary, interim and late stages during in vitro angiogenesis using ECMatrix™. The akermanite ion extract up-regulated the expression of genes encoding the receptors of proangiogenic cytokines and also increased the expression level of genes encoding the proangiogenic downstream cytokines, such as nitric oxide synthase and nitric oxide synthesis. Akermanite implanted in rabbit femoral condyle model promoted neovascularization after 8 and 16 weeks of implantation, which further confirmed its stimulation effect on angiogenesis in vivo. These results indicate that akermanite ceramic, an appropriate Si ion concentration source, could induce angiogenesis through increasing gene expression of proangiogenic cytokine receptors and up-regulated downstream signaling. To our knowledge, akermanite ceramic is the first Si-containing ceramic demonstrated to be capable of inducing angiogenesis during bone regeneration.
    Document Type:
    Reference
    Product Catalog Number:
    ECM625
    Product Catalog Name:
    In Vitro Angiogenesis Assay Kit (In Vitro Angiogenesis Assay Kit)

  • Intrafibrillar silicification of collagen scaffolds for sustained release of stem cell homing chemokine in hard tissue regeneration. 22859369

    Traditional bone regeneration strategies relied on supplementation of biomaterials constructs with stem or progenitor cells or growth factors. By contrast, cell homing strategies employ chemokines to mobilize stem or progenitor cells from host bone marrow and tissue niches to injured sites. Although silica-based biomaterials exhibit osteogenic and angiogenic potentials, they lack cell homing capability. Stromal cell-derived factor-1 (SDF-1) plays a pivotal role in mobilization and homing of stem cells to injured tissues. In this work, we demonstrated that 3-dimensional collagen scaffolds infiltrated with intrafibrillar silica are biodegradable and highly biocompatible. They exhibit improved compressive stress-strain responses and toughness over nonsilicified collagen scaffolds. They are osteoconductive and up-regulate expressions of osteogenesis- and angiogenesis-related genes more significantly than nonsilicified collagen scaffolds. In addition, these scaffolds reversibly bind SDF-1α for sustained release of this chemokine, which exhibits in vitro cell homing characteristics. When implanted subcutaneously in an in vivo mouse model, SDF-1α-loaded silicified collagen scaffolds stimulate the formation of ectopic bone and blood capillaries within the scaffold and abrogate the need for cell seeding or supplementation of osteogenic and angiogenic growth factors. Intrafibrillar-silicified collagen scaffolds with sustained SDF-1α release represent a less costly and complex alternative to contemporary cell seeding approaches and provide new therapeutic options for in situ hard tissue regeneration.-Niu, L.-N., Jiao, K., Qi, Y.-P., Nikonov, S., Yiu, C. K. Y., Arola, D. D., Gong, S.-Q., El-Marakby, A., Carrilho, M. R. O., Hamrick, M. W., Hargreaves, K. M., Diogenes, A., Chen, J.-H., Pashley, D. H., Tay, F. R. Intrafibrillar silicification of collagen scaffolds for sustained release of stem cell homing chemokine in hard tissue regeneration.
    Document Type:
    Reference
    Product Catalog Number:
    ECM625
    Product Catalog Name:
    In Vitro Angiogenesis Assay Kit (In Vitro Angiogenesis Assay Kit)