Tissue-engineered bone fabricated with scaffold of demineralized tubular bone matrix / 实用口腔医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective: To investigate the method of using tubular demineralized tubular bone matrix scaffold composited with marrow stromal osteoblasts to fabricate tissue-engineered bone in vivo. Methods: Marrow stromal cells were harvested from illiac bone of 5 New Zealand rabbits respectively. After being cultured and multiplied in vitro, marrow stromal cells were induced to differentiate to osteoblasts with dexamethasone. The induced cells were harvested and mixed with 1.5% alginate sodium solution to generate a cell suspension. The suspension was dropped into tubular demineralized bone (1～1.5 cm in length, 0.2～0.5 cm in diameter) and then gelled with 2.5% CaCl 2. The demineralized tubular bone matrix/osteoblasts composites were placed in the dorsum of the rabbit subcutaneously as autogenous cells transplantation. Samples were investigated 6 and 12 weeks after implantation with histological and roentgenographic examination. Results: Osteoid tissue and new bone were observed in 4 weeks. In 8 weeks, more new bone formation, cells lied in the lacunae and arranged in order were found.Conclusion: Demineralized tubular bone matrix can be used as scaffold for the marrow stromal osteoblasts and alginate which was employed as three dimension carrier for cell growing and producing extral cell matrix.