Polymeric scaffolds for bioactive agent delivery in bone tissue engineering

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Uçar, Şeniz

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Tissue engineering is a multidisciplinary field that is rapidly emerging as a promising new approach in the restoration and reconstruction of tissues. In this approach, three dimensional (3D) scaffolds are of great importance. Scaffolds function both as supports for cell growth and depot for sustained release of required active agents (e.g. enzymes, genes, antibiotics, growth factors). Scaffolds should possess certain properties in accordance with usage conditions. Wet-spinning is a simple technique that has been widely used for the fabrication of porous scaffolds for tissue engineering applications. Natural polymers can effectively be used in scaffold fabrication due to their biocharacteristics. Among natural polymers, chitosan and alginate are two of the most studied ones in tissue engineering and drug delivery fields because of being biologically renewable, biodegradable, biocompatible, non-antigenic, non-toxic and biofunctional. In this study, two kinds of porous scaffolds were produced as chitosan and alginate coated chitosan fibrous scaffolds by wet-spinning technique In order to investigate the delivery characteristics of the scaffolds, loading of gentamicin as a model antibiotic and bovine serum albumin (BSA) as a model protein was carried out in different loading models. Resultant scaffolds were characterized in terms of their structural formation, biodegradation, biomineralization, water uptake and retention ability and mechanical properties. Additionally, release kinetics of gentamicin and BSA were examined. Efficiency of gentamicin on Escherichia coli (E.coli) was examined. Characterization of scaffolds revealed their adequacy to be used in bone tissue engineering applications and capability to be employed as bioactive agent delivery systems.

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Bones., Tissue engineering., Catalysts., Tissue scaffolds.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614905/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/21852

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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Ş. Uçar, “Polymeric scaffolds for bioactive agent delivery in bone tissue engineering,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2012.