Bone regeneration in a rabbit critical-sized calvarial model using tyrosine-derived polycarbonate scaffolds |
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Authors: | Kim Jinku Magno Maria Hanshella R Waters Heather Doll Bruce A McBride Sean Alvarez Pedro Darr Aniq Vasanji Amit Kohn Joachim Hollinger Jeffrey O |
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Institution: | Department of Biomedical Engineering, Bone Tissue Engineering Center, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219, USA. |
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Abstract: | Porous three-dimensional tyrosine-derived polycarbonate (TyrPC) scaffolds with a bimodal pore distribution were fabricated to mimic bone architecture using a combination of salt-leaching and phase separation techniques. TyrPC scaffolds degraded in register with bone regeneration during the 6-week study period and compressive moduli of the scaffolds were maintained >0.5 MPa at 6 weeks of incubation in PBS at 37 °C. The TyrPC scaffolds either unsupplemented or supplemented with recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 (rhBMP-2) were implanted in a rabbit calvarial critical-sized defect (CSD) model and the TyrPC scaffolds treated with rhBMP-2 or TyrPC coated with calcium phosphate scaffold alone promoted bone regeneration in a rabbit calvarial CSD at 6 weeks postimplantation. A synthetic TyrPC polymeric scaffold either without a biological supplement or with a minimal dose of rhBMP-2 induced bone regeneration comparable to a commercially available bone graft substitute in a nonrodent CSD animal model. |
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