Three-dimensional printing of rhBMP-2-loaded scaffolds with long-term delivery for enhanced bone regeneration in a rabbit diaphyseal defect

Tissue Eng Part A. 2014 Jul;20(13-14):1980-92. doi: 10.1089/ten.TEA.2013.0513. Epub 2014 Mar 21.

Abstract

In this study, recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 (rhBMP-2) delivery system with slow mode was successfully developed in three-dimensional (3D) printing-based polycaprolactone (PCL)/poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) scaffolds for bone formation of critical-sized rabbit segmental diaphyseal defect. To control the delivery of the rhBMP-2, collagen (for long-term delivery up to 28 days) and gelatin (for shor-term delivery within a week) solutions encapsulating rhBMP-2 were dispensed into a hollow cylinderical type of PCL/PLGA scaffold. An effective dose of 5μg/mL was determined by measuring the alkaline phosphatase and osteocalcin gene expression levels of human nasal inferior turbinate-derived mesenchymal stromal cells (hTMSCs) seeded on the PCL/PLGA/collagen scaffold in vitro. However, it was found that a burst release of rhBMP-2 from the PCL/PLGA/gelatin scaffold did not induce the osteogenic differentiation of hTMSCs in vitro at an equivalent dose. In the in vivo animal experiements, microcomputed tomography and histological analyses confirmed that PCL/PLGA/collagen/rhBMP-2 scaffolds (long-term delivery mode) showed the best bone healing quality at both weeks 4 and 8 after implantation without inflammatory response. On the other hand, a large number of macrophages indicating severe inflammation provoked by burst release of rhBMP-2 were observed in the vicinity of PCL/PLGA/gelatin/rhBMP-2 (short-term delivery mode) at week 4.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Bone Morphogenetic Protein 2 / pharmacology*
  • Bone Regeneration / drug effects*
  • Cattle
  • Cell Differentiation / drug effects
  • Collagen / pharmacology
  • Diaphyses / drug effects
  • Diaphyses / pathology*
  • Disease Models, Animal
  • Gelatin / pharmacology
  • Humans
  • Imaging, Three-Dimensional
  • Immunohistochemistry
  • Lactic Acid / chemistry
  • Male
  • Mesenchymal Stem Cells / cytology
  • Mesenchymal Stem Cells / drug effects
  • Osteogenesis / drug effects
  • Polyesters / chemistry
  • Polyglycolic Acid / chemistry
  • Polylactic Acid-Polyglycolic Acid Copolymer
  • Printing, Three-Dimensional*
  • Rabbits
  • Radius / diagnostic imaging
  • Radius / drug effects
  • Radius / pathology
  • Recombinant Proteins / pharmacology
  • Time Factors
  • Tissue Scaffolds / chemistry*
  • Transforming Growth Factor beta / pharmacology*
  • X-Ray Microtomography

Substances

  • Bone Morphogenetic Protein 2
  • Polyesters
  • Recombinant Proteins
  • Transforming Growth Factor beta
  • recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2
  • Polylactic Acid-Polyglycolic Acid Copolymer
  • polycaprolactone
  • Polyglycolic Acid
  • Lactic Acid
  • Gelatin
  • Collagen