Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research

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Vascularized strategy for tissue-engineered bone

Zheng Xiao-hui1, Chen Zhen-guang2   

  1. 1 Second Department of General Surgery, General Hospital of Fujian Armed Police Corps, Fuzhou  350003, Fujian Province, China
    2 Department of Microsurgery Orthopedics, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan  430071, Hubei Province, China
  • Received:2012-10-13 Revised:2012-12-23 Online:2013-04-09 Published:2013-04-09
  • About author:Zheng Xiao-hui☆, Doctor, Associate chief physician, Second Department of General Surgery, General Hospital of Fujian Armed Police Corps, Fuzhou 350003, Fujian Province, China shauhui@126.com

Abstract:

BACKGROUND: How to rebuild the blood supply during construction of tissue-engineered bone is becoming a critical problem reversed from basic research to clinical application.
OBJECTIVE: To review a series of vascularization methods during tissue-engineered bone construction.
METHODS: A computer-based search of PubMed and Wanfang databases was performed by the first author for the literature about vascularization methods during tissue-engineered bone construction published from 1974 to 2008. The key words were “tissue-engineered bone, vascularized, bone defects, blood supply” in English and Chinese, respectively. Repetitive articles or those with unrelated purpose were excluded, and finally 61 articles were included in result analysis.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Vascularized methods for construction of tissue-engineered bone are mainly classified as in vivo and in vitro mehtods. Vascular endothelial cells and growth factors belonged to in vitro methods, while vascular bundle, vascular pedicled fascial flap, vascular pedicled muscle flap, vascular pedicled periosteal flap categorized as in vivo methods. Although a great development has been made in vascularized tissue-engineered bone, there are still many inadequacies. We believe that, with the development of mechanism of angiogenesis, vasculared tissue engineered bone will have a promising prospect because of promoting the ability of release-controlled growth factors and their synergies, optimizing the choose of seed cells, and improving the structure and properties of materials

Key words: tissue construction, tissue construction review, tissue-engineered bone, vascularization, vascular endothelial cells, growth factors, vascular bundles, bone defects, blood supply

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