Effect of increasing mineralization on pre-osteoblast response to native collagen fibril scaffolds for bone tissue repair and regeneration
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Abstract
With limited availability of auto- and allografts, there is increasing demand for alternative bone repair and regeneration materials. Inspired by a mimetic approach, the utility of producing engineered native protein scaffolds is being increasingly realized, demonstrating the need for continued research in this field. In previous work, we detailed a process for producing mineralized collagen scaffolds using tendon to create collagen templates of highly aligned, natively crosslinked collagen fibrils. The process produced mineral phase closely matching that of native bone, and integration of mineral with the collagen template was demonstrated to be easily controlled, allowing scaffolds to be mechanically tuned. In the current study, we have extended this work to investigate how variation in the mineralization level of these scaffolds affects the osteogenic response of pre-osteoblastic cells. Scaffolds were produced under three treatment groups, where collagen templates underwent 0, 5, or 20 mineralization cycles. Scaffolds in each treatment group were cultured with MC3T3-E1 cells for 1, 7, or 14 days. Morphologic assessment under SEM indicated decreased attachment to the mineralized scaffolds, supported by DNA results showing a significant drop between culture days 1 and 7 for mineralized scaffolds only. For adherent cells, increasing scaffold mineralization also delayed cell spreading. While mineralization presented a barrier to cell coverage of scaffolds, it increased osteogenic activity, with cells on the mineralized scaffolds showing significantly greater alkaline phosphatase activity and osteocalcin production. Understanding how increasing collagen mineralization effects pre-osteoblast function may enable design of more advanced mineralized collagen scaffolds for bone repair and regeneration.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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