Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research ›› 2017, Vol. 21 ›› Issue (14): 2280-2284.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.2095-4344.2017.14.024

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Application and characteristics of silk fibroin/chitosan scaffold in orthopaedic regenerative medicine

Yuan Zhen-zhong, Chen Yue-ping   

  1. Ruikang Clinical College, Guangxi University of Chinese University, Nanning 530011, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
  • Received:2016-12-23 Online:2017-05-18 Published:2017-06-10
  • Contact: Chen Yue-ping, Master’s supervisor, Chief physician, Ruikang Clinical College, Guangxi University of Chinese University, Nanning 530011, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
  • About author:Yuan Zhen-zhong, Master, Ruikang Clinical College, Guangxi University of Chinese University, Nanning 530011, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
  • Supported by:

    the Health Technology Research and Development Project of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, No. S201419-5; the Natural Science Foundation of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, No. 2015GXNSFAA139136; the Basic Ability Improvement Project of Young Teachers in Guangxi Colleges and Universities, No. KY2016YB204; the Scientific Research Project of Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, No. 2015LX027; the Training Discipline-Bone Surgery Construction Project of Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine in 2014, No. J13167(7)

Abstract:

BACKGROUND: A silk fibroin/chitosan scaffold has good biocompatibility, osteoinductivity and degradability.
OBJECTIVE: To review the structure, performance and application of the silk fibroin/chitosan scaffold in bone, cartilage and soft tissue engineering regeneration.
METHODS: PubMed, Wanfang, and CNKI databases were retrieved by computer for articles related to the structure, performance and application of the silk fibroin/chitosan scaffold in orthopedics published from 1998 to 2016. The keywords were “chitosan, silk protein, bone tissue engineering” in English and Chinese, respectively.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: The silk fibroin/chitosan scaffold is characterized by good biocompatibility, bone inductivity and biodegradability that make cells grow well on the scaffold. The silk fibroin/chitosan scaffold has been widely used in bone tissue engineering, and has a prominent performance in bone defect repair and cartilage injury treatment. Meanwhile, the silk fibroin/chitosan scaffold exerts a crucial role in wound healing as well as in the treatment of spinal nerve injury and other soft tissue injuries. However, the silk fibroin/chitosan scaffold currently is less reported in the clinical use due to various reasons, and it will be the main research direction of future efforts. As is known to us, silk protein can be used to prepare the cruciate ligament and construct tissue-engineered nuclei; therefore, the silk fibroin/chitosan scaffold can be developed in the treatment of tendon ligament injury and intervertebral disc tissue engineering.

中国组织工程研究杂志出版内容重点:生物材料;骨生物材料; 口腔生物材料; 纳米材料; 缓释材料; 材料相容性;组织工程

Key words: Silk, Chitosan, Tissue Engineering

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