Papers by Author: X. N. Chen

Abstract: Protein adsorption is driven by various interactions. The contribution of surface charge to bovine serum albumin (BSA) adsorption on hydroxyapatite (HA) ceramic was investigated by adjusting the liquid environment in which the solid particles dispersed. Zeta potentials of HA and the adsorption of BSA on the surface were tested as a function of pH, ionic strength, Ca2+ and PO4 3- concentrations in the aqueous solutions, and the results showed that both of them were greatly affected by those experimental variations. Besides, the amount of adsorbed BSA was related to the variation of zeta potential of HA, as could be well understood in terms of electrostatic interactions.

Abstract: Serum immersion, a new method of pre-treated HA ceramics, has been compared with SBF immersion and untreated HA particles in cell culture condition. MTT assay indicates that serum-immersion lessens particles cytotoxity of HA particles in cultured L929 mouse fibroblast cell (p<0.05). Neither immersion nor traditional physical factors such as particle size, shape should be responsible for these because SBF immersion with the similar factors results in no significant improvement. The reason might be serum proteins adsorption and biommetic microstructure formation on the ceramics surface, which affect cellular membrane behaviors, phagosome metabolization and cellular protein secretion. Otherwise, cells with particles degraded early apparently, which indicated that particles influence the cell cycle. The whole processes must be correlated intensively with cytokine, protease and intracellular ion concentration, which would be discussed in our follow-up studies.