Soybean Lecithin‐Mediated Nanoporous PLGA Microspheres with Highly Entrapped and Controlled Released BMP‐2 as a Stem Cell Platform |
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| Authors: | Daixu Wei Ruirui Qiao Jinwei Dao Jing Su Chengmin Jiang Xichang Wang Mingyuan Gao Jian Zhong |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Laboratory of Quality and Safety Risk Assessment for Aquatic Products on Storage and Preservation (Shanghai), Ministry of Agriculture, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Aquatic‐Product Processing and Preservation, College of Food Science & Technology, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China;2. State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Fudan University, Shanghai, China;3. School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua‐Peking Center for Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China;4. CAS Key Laboratory of Colloid, and Interface and Chemical Thermodynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;5. School of Pharmacy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China;6. Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA |
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| Abstract: | Injectable polymer microsphere‐based stem cell delivery systems have a severe problem that they do not offer a desirable environment for stem cell adhesion, proliferation, and differentiation because it is difficult to entrap a large number of hydrophilic functional protein molecules into the core of hydrophobic polymer microspheres. In this work, soybean lecithin (SL) is applied to entrap hydrophilic bone morphogenic protein‐2 (BMP‐2) into nanoporous poly(lactide‐co‐glycolide) (PLGA)‐based microspheres by a two‐step method: SL/BMP‐2 complexes preparation and PLGA/SL/BMP‐2 microsphere preparation. The measurements of their physicochemical properties show that PLGA/SL/BMP‐2 microspheres had significantly higher BMP‐2 entrapment efficiency and controlled triphasic BMP‐2 release behavior compared with PLGA/BMP‐2 microspheres. Furthermore, the in vitro and in vivo stem cell behaviors on PLGA/SL/BMP‐2 microspheres are analyzed. Compared with PLGA/BMP‐2 microspheres, PLGA/SL/BMP‐2 microspheres have significantly higher in vitro and in vivo stem cell attachment, proliferation, differentiation, and matrix mineralization abilities. Therefore, injectable nanoporous PLGA/SL/BMP‐2 microspheres can be potentially used as a stem cell platform for bone tissue regeneration. In addition, SL can be potentially used to prepare hydrophilic protein‐loaded hydrophobic polymer microspheres with highly entrapped and controlled release of proteins. |
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| Keywords: | bone regeneration controlled release high entrapment PLGA/soybean lecithin/BMP‐2 microspheres stem cell |
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