Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research ›› 2024, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (20): 3240-3245.doi: 10.12307/2024.385

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The effective components of Chinese medicine combined with scaffold materials promote bone tissue regeneration

Dong Xinyu, Dong Xinyue, Wang Wanting, Fan Haixia, Cheng Huanzhi   

  1. School of Stomatology, Jining Medical University, Jining 272000, Shandong Province, China
  • Received:2023-05-23 Accepted:2023-07-04 Online:2024-07-18 Published:2023-09-11
  • Contact: Cheng Huanzhi, Master, School of Stomatology, Jining Medical University, Jining 272000, Shandong Province, China
  • About author:Dong Xinyu, School of Stomatology, Jining Medical University, Jining 272000, Shandong Province, China
  • Supported by:
    Jining Key Research and Development Project, No. 2021YXNS019 (to FHX); Jining Medical University Educational Teaching Research Project, No. Y2020023 (to CHZ)

Abstract: BACKGROUND: With the proven ability of traditional Chinese medicine such as icariin and berberine to promote bone regeneration by regulating various mechanisms and targets, researchers have combined active ingredients of traditional Chinese medicine with bone tissue engineering and found that they have unique advantages in treating bone defects.
OBJECTIVE: Starting from the active ingredients of traditional Chinese medicines that promote bone formation, to screen cases of their effective combination with different drug-carrying scaffold materials, and summarize the active ingredients of traditional Chinese medicines that have the potential to be applied to bone tissue engineering.
METHODS: CNKI, WanFang, PubMed, and Web of Science were searched for relevant literature published from 2000 to 2023, using the keywords of “bone tissue engineering, bone tissue-engineered scaffold materials, bone defect, bone repair, bone regeneration, traditional Chinese medicine” in Chinese and English. According to the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 87 papers were finally included for review.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: There are various kinds of active ingredients of traditional Chinese medicine to promote bone regeneration, mainly including flavonoids, non-flavonoid polyphenols, alkaloids, glycosides. These active ingredients have anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects, promote osteoblasts, inhibit osteoclasts and promote early angiogenesis. The combination of active ingredients of traditional Chinese medicine with bone tissue engineering is effective in anti-inflammation, accelerating collagen and bone formation, and promoting the expression of osteogenic genes, which provides a theoretical basis for the application of traditional Chinese medicine in bone tissue regeneration, and at the same time provides a new idea for the repair of bone defects.

Key words: active ingredients of traditional Chinese medicine, bone defect, bone regeneration, bone tissue engineering, scaffold material, angiogenesis

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