Papers by Author: H.D. Cao

Abstract: Glutaraldehyde was increasingly used to improve the stability of the collagen-based biomaterials as cross-linking. To investigate in vitro cytotoxicity of Hydroxyapatite/Collagen (HA/COL) composite with glutaraldehyde (GA) as cross-link reagent, which was abbreviated as cHA/COL, the mouse fibroblasts L929 cell was selected. The method of MTT colorimetric assay was adopted to evaluate the availability of cells. After cultured for 24h、 48h, the attachment and morphology of L929 cell on the surface of this material were observed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and fluorescent microscopy. MTT analysis indicated L929 cells cultured on cHA/COL had a perfect growth capacity. Cells proliferated well and cell colonization was observed on the materials by scanning electron microscopy and fluorescent microscopy. It demonstrated that cHA/COL composite exhibited good cytocompatibility and might be suitable as bone substitutes. The result provided the evidence for further animal experiment in vivo.

Abstract: A electrospinning process to prepare soft tissue engineering scaffold was introduced in this study. This kind of scaffold was composed with ultrathin fiber and characterized with high porosity, well-interconnected pores and high surface-to-volume ratio. Biodegradable polylaticacid (PLA) was used to spin the scaffold and the scaffold was evaluated in vitro by analysis the microscopic structure, porosity, mechanical property, especially cytocompatibility. The results indicated that the electrospun PLA scaffold showed good cytocompatibility and the tensile property of electrospun scaffold was similar to human’s soft tissue. It could be expected that the electrospun scaffold would be potential in soft tissue engineering or soft tissue repair.

Abstract: In recent years, electrospinning process is gradually applied in producing tissue-engineering scaffold. In this study, we chose polylacticacid(PLA) and β-tertiary calcium phosphate(β-TCP) as raw materials to fabricate PLA/β-TCP biodegradable composite scaffold by electrospinning process. The characteristics of the scaffold and effect of the scaffolds to cell proliferation and cell adhesion was studied. Compare with pure PLA scaffold, blendingβ-TCP in the spinning process of the scaffold could improve the properties of the scaffold, especially the hydrophilicity and the proliferation and adhesion of cells, this means that the material is more potential to be used as tissue engineering scaffolds.