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In vitro pre-vascularized tissue-engineered bone

Li Yan1, 2, Zhang Jian-she1, Dong Xiu-hua2, 3   

  1. 1Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, General Hospital of Chengdu Military Region of PLA, Chengdu  610083, Sichuan Province, China; 2Disease Prevention and Control Center of Chengdu Military Region of PLA, Chengdu  610021, Sichuan Province, China; 3Luzhou Medical College, Luzhou  646000, Sichuan Province, China
  • Received:2013-01-17 Revised:2013-02-06 Online:2013-08-13 Published:2013-08-13
  • Contact: Zhang Jian-she, Chief physician, Master’s supervisor, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, General Hospital of Chengdu Military Region of PLA, Chengdu 610083, Sichuan Province, China Zhangjianshe2002@yahoo.com.cn
  • About author:Li Yan☆, M.D., Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, General Hospital of Chengdu Military Region of PLA, Chengdu 610083, Sichuan Province, China; Disease Prevention and Control Center of Chengdu Military Region of PLA, Chengdu 610021, Sichuan Province, China doctoryanli@yahoo.cn
  • Supported by:

    the Health Bureau of Sichuan Province, No. 100086*

Abstract:

BACKGROUND: Tissue-engineered bone, as an emerging method, is used to repair bone defects, but it is difficult to be used widely because of no nutrient metabolism of implants. Pre-vascularized tissue-engineered bone research is performed for this limitation. Forward-looking and procedural vascular construction prior to artificial grafting is perspective to supply the nutrient metabolism of implants.
OBJECTIVE: To analyze the research results and developmental tendency of pre-vascularized bone engineering in vitro using a multilevel analysis.
METHOD: Literature search was performed in CNKI database for Chinese literatures and PubMed database for English literatures from 2000 to 2012. The key words included “tissue-engineered bone, vascularization, implant, osteoblasts, endothelial cells, co-culture” in Chinese, and “bone engineering, endothelial cells, osteoblast, implant, cells co-culture” in English. A review addressing pre-vascularized tissue-engineered bone was completed based on retrieved literature classified according to bone physiological studies, in vitro experimental research and material research.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Totally 60 articles were included in result analysis. Studied have documented that microvascular regeneration in normal bone tissue has an important role in osteogenesis regulation. Current bone tissue engineering research is to simulate this physiological process of vascular regeneration in the human body, and lots of in vitro studies are designed to complete this angiogenic process in bone tissue engineering. It is confirmed that in vitro pre-vascular work is used for bone tissue engineering, especially for in vivo survival and ossification of tissue-engineered bone, pointing out the developmental direction for the clinical application of tissue-engineered bone.

Key words: tissue construction, tissue construction review, bone tissue construction, tissue-engineered bone, vascularization, revascularization, in vitro pre-vascularization, vascular endothelial cells, osteoblasts, stent implantation, co-culture, provincial grants-supported paper

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