Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research ›› 2019, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (18): 2936-2940.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.2095-4344.1712

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Application and progress of strontium in bone tissue engineering

Zhang Jun, You Qi, Zou Gang, Ge Zhen, Liu Yi
  

  1. First Department of Orthopedics, Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi 563000, Guizhou Province, China
  • Received:2019-01-22 Online:2019-06-28 Published:2019-06-28
  • Contact: Liu Yi, Professor, Master’s supervisor, First Department of Orthopedics, Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi 563000, Guizhou Province, China
  • About author:Zhang Jun, Master candidate, First Department of Orthopedics, Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi 563000, Guizhou Province, China

Abstract:

BACKGROUND: Strontium has been widely used in bone tissue engineering to promote osteoblast differentiation and inhibit osteoclast absorption.
OBJECTIVE: To review the application and progress of strontium in bone tissue engineering.
METHODS: A computer-based search of CNKI, PubMed, and Elsevier databases was performed for retrieving articles concerning the application of strontium in bone tissue engineering published from January 1960 to December 2018. The keywords were “strontium, Sr, bone, bone defects, bone repair, tissue engineering” in Chinese and English, respectively. The types of literature included review, basic and clinical research. The literature was screened preliminarily by reading title and abstract, and the irrelevant articles were excluded. Finally 48 articles eligible for inclusion and exclusion criteria were enrolled for result analysis.  
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: As an important component of bones, strontium plays an important role in the development and formation of bone. Strontium-doped bone substitute materials have become the hotspot of bone tissue engineering research. A large number of studies have confirmed that the incorporation of strontium can effectively improve the mechanical properties of bone substitute materials, improve the recruitment ability and differentiation ability of osteoblasts, and promote the osteogenesis and angiogenesis in vivo. However, there are still some shortcomings in the current research: the strontium-doping methods used in different studies are different, so the results are not comparable. The results of different studies on the amount of strontium doping are different. There is no relatively well-recognized strontium-incorporating concentration that can be used to induce osteogenic differentiation.

Key words: strontium, bone tissue engineering, bone defects, bone repair, osteoblasts, osteoclasts, osteogenic ability, angiogenesis ability

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