The control of pore size and uniform porosity remains as an important challenge in gelatin scaffolds. The precise control in building blocks of tissue scaffolds without any additional porogen is possible with costly equipment and techniques, though some pre‐requirements for polymeric material, such as photo‐polymerizability or sintering ability, may be needed prior to construction. Herein, a method for the fabrication of gelatin scaffolds with homogenous porosity using simple T‐junction microfluidics is described. The size of the microbubbles is precisely controlled with 5% deviation from the average. Porous gelatin scaffolds are obtained by building‐up the monodispersed microbubbles in dilute cross‐linker solutions. The effect of cross‐linker density on pore diameter is also investigated. After cross‐linking, pore size of the resultant five scaffold groups are precisely controlled as 135 ± 11, 193 ± 11, 216 ± 9, 231 ± 5, and 250 ± 12 µm. Porosity ratios above 65% are achieved in every sample group. According to the cell culture experiments, structures support high cell adhesion, viability, and migration through the porous network via interconnectivity. This study offers a practical and economical approach for the preparation of porous gelatin scaffolds with homogenous porosity which can be utilized in diverse tissue engineering applications. 相似文献
Compression moulded laminates based on a gelatin or a blended gelatin/starch matrix reinforced by fabrics (linen or silk) were prepared. Three linen or five silk sheets with a powdered matrix between them were compression moulded at 180 °C for several minutes. In addition, cross‐linked laminates were obtained by using methylenedi(p‐phenyl) diisocyanate as a cross‐linking agent expected to obtain an improved integrity between the matrix and the reinforcing elements. In this way a total of ten uncross‐linked and cross‐linked samples differing in the type of the matrix (gelatin or gelatin/starch) and the type of the reinforcing element (linen or silk), both uncross‐linked and cross‐linked, were obtained. All samples were characterized by means of mechanical testing (Young's modulus, tensile strength, elongation at break and impact strength), as reported in Part 1 of this study. In the present Part 2, the same ten samples were artificially weathered, and changes in both the mechanical properties and the specific wear rate with aging time were followed. It was found that the majority of the mechanical parameters generally became worse with aging time; only the Young's modulus and the tensile strength remained on the same order of magnitude for all laminates. The linen reinforced laminates showed much higher values of the deformation at break, the impact strength and the wear resistance in comparison to the silk reinforced laminates. A similar tendency was found for the sliding wear tests against smooth steel counterparts. A reinforcement of gelatin or gelatin/starch with linen was much more effective in improving the laminate wear resistance than a reinforcement with silk. In addition, the abrasion resistance of neat gelatin was found to be much higher than that of the gelatin/starch blend, as evaluated by the Taber index.
Dependence of Young's modulus on aging time for the neat matrix samples (gelatin and gelatin/starch) and the compression moulded laminates reinforced with fabrics. 相似文献
目的建立一种新的重组人骨形态发生蛋白-7(Recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-7,rhBMP-7)活性检测方法。方法将吸收性明胶海绵与rhBMP-7混匀,冻干,环氧乙烷灭菌后,植入小鼠大腿股部肌间隙,共设5组:明胶海绵对照组及50、100、150、250μg rhBMP-7/块明胶海绵实验组,分别于术后第2、3周取材,进行HE染色及蛋白含量测定。结果 HE染色结果显示,与明胶海绵对照组相比,rhBMP-7/明胶海绵组细胞数量明显增多,且随着rhBMP-7剂量的增加及作用时间的延长而逐渐增多。蛋白含量测定结果显示,与明胶海绵对照组相比,rhBMP-7/明胶海绵组蛋白含量随着rhBMP-7剂量的增加及作用时间的延长而逐渐增加,且rhBMP-7剂量与每组蛋白含量平均值呈良好的相关性。结论将rhBMP-7复合明胶海绵植入小鼠大腿肌间隙并于第2周取材进行蛋白含量测定的方法,可用于rhBMP-7活性检测。 相似文献
Amino-terminated PAMAM dendrimers with 16 and respectively 64 amino groups have been chemically immobilized onto the surface of glutaraldehyde (abbreviated GA) crosslinked thin gelatin scaffolds based on Schiff-base linkage formation between the amines and free aldehyde from partially unreacted GA. Crosslinking and dendrimers surface modification of hydrogels have been chemically and physically investigated using FT-IR spectroscopy and microscopy, UV–VIS, LM, AFM, swelling tests and a colorimetric technique. Two types of gelatin-based hydrogels with homogeneous nanorough surfaces and presenting an increased number of amino groups available for further chemical reactions have been obtained. The synthesis strategy presented in this work seems to open a new route for nanorough crosslinked gelatin scaffolds that could be further used for biomedical and especially for hard tissue engineering application. 相似文献
Biocompatible materials are of considerable interest in the development of cell/drug delivery carriers for therapeutic applications. This paper investigates the effects of the Bloom index of gelatin on its interaction with retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells. Following two days of culture of ARPE-19 cells with gelatin samples G75-100, G175, and G300, the in vitro biocompatibility was determined by cell proliferation and viability assays, and glutamate uptake measurements, as well as cytokine expression analyses. The mitochondrial dehydrogenase activity in the G300 groups was significantly lower than that of G75-100 and G175 groups. The Live/Dead assays also showed that the gelatin samples G300 induced mild cytotoxicity. In comparison with the treatment of gelatins with low Bloom index, the exposure to high Bloom strength gelatins markedly reduced the glutamate uptake capacity of ARPE-19 cells. One possible explanation for these observations is that the presence of gelatin samples G300 with high viscosity in the medium may affect the nutrient availability to cultured cells. The analyses of pro-inflammatory cytokine IL-6 expression at both mRNA and protein levels showed that the gelatins with low Bloom index caused less cellular inflammatory reaction and had more acceptable biocompatibility than their high Bloom strength counterparts. These findings suggest that the Bloom index gives influence on cellular responses to gelatin materials. 相似文献