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Knitted Silk-Collagen Scaffold Incorporated with Ligament Stem/Progenitor Cells Sheet for Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction and Osteoarthritis Prevention

Ruan, Dengfeng
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Zhu, Ting  
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Huang, Jiayun
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October 1, 2019
ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering

Current surgical management of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) rupture still remains an intractable challenge in ACL regeneration due to the weak self-healing capability of ACL. Inadequate cell numbers and vascularization within the articular cavity contribute mainly to the poor prognosis. This time, we fabricated a new tissue engineering scaffold by adding ligament stem/progenitor cell (LSPC) sheets to our previous knitted silk-collagen sponge scaffold, which overcame these limitations by providing sufficient numbers of seed cells and a natural extracellular matrix to facilitate regeneration. LSPCs display excellent proliferation and multilineage differentiation capacity. Upon ectopic implantation, the knitted silk-collagen sponge scaffold incorporated with an LSPC sheet exhibited less immune cells but more fibroblast-like cells, deposited ECM and neovascularization, and better tissue ingrowth.In a rabbit model, we excised the ACL and performed a reconstructive surgery with our scaffold. Increased expression of ligament-specific genes and better collagen fibril formation could be observed after orthotopic transplantation. After 6 months, the LSPC sheet group showed better results on ligament regeneration and ligament-bone healing. Furthermore, no obvious cartilage and meniscus degeneration were observed at 6 months postoperation. In conclusion, these results indicated that the new tissue engineering scaffold can promote ACL regeneration and slow down the progression of osteoarthritis, thus suggesting its high clinical potential as an ideal graft in ACL reconstruction.

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research article
DOI
10.1021/acsbiomaterials.9b01041
Web of Science ID

WOS:000490658800049

Author(s)
Ruan, Dengfeng
Zhu, Ting  
Huang, Jiayun
Le, Huihui
Hu, Yejun
Zheng, Zefeng
Tang, Chenqi
Chen, Yangwu
Ran, Jisheng
Chen, Xiao
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Date Issued

2019-10-01

Published in
ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering
Volume

5

Issue

10

Start page

5412

End page

5421

Subjects

Materials Science, Biomaterials

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Materials Science

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acl reconstruction

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acl regeneration

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knitted silk-collagen sponge scaffold

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ligament stem/progenitor cells

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cell sheet

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osteoarthritis prevention

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mesenchymal stem-cells

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tissue engineered ligament

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endothelial growth-factor

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marrow stromal cells

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bone-marrow

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mechanical-properties

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articular-cartilage

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patellar tendon

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achilles-tendon

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sponge scaffold

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