Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research ›› 2026, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (14): 3702-3708.doi: 10.12307/2026.027

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Application of electrospinning in artificial dura mater substitutes: diverse biological functions

Li He, Wang Yu, Xie Zikang, Jiang Tao   

  1. Changzhou Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Changzhou 213006, Jiangsu Province, China
  • Received:2025-02-06 Accepted:2025-04-17 Online:2026-05-18 Published:2025-09-12
  • Contact: Jiang Tao, MD, Doctoral supervisor, Chief physician, Changzhou Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Changzhou 213006, Jiangsu Province, China
  • About author:Li He, MD, Attending physician, Changzhou Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Changzhou 213006, Jiangsu Province, China

Abstract: BACKGROUND: Many studies have applied electrospinning to the study of artificial dura mater substitutes, and designed multifunctional artificial dura mater, which can not only better simulate the natural dura mater structure, but also play biological functions such as promoting healing, preventing adhesion, and antibacterial. 
OBJECTIVE: To systematically summarize the research progress of electrospinning technology in artificial dura mater substitutes. 
METHODS: CNKI, WanFang, and PubMed databases were searched with Chinese and English search terms “electrospinning dura mater, dura mater substitute, artificial dura mater patch” for articles published from inception to September 2024. Finally, 64 articles were included for summarization by reading the titles and abstracts to select and exclude the literature with low relevance.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Artificial dura mater is mainly divided into two categories: non-degradable and degradable. It plays an important role in repairing dura mater defects and is also a hot topic in the research of biological tissue engineering. Electrospinning can combine chemistry, materials science, pharmacology and other fields to design artificial dura substitutes from the structural and functional requirements, processing a series of new artificial dura mater such as biomimetic oriented fiber type, asymmetric double layer type, and multi-layer composite type. Meanwhile, it also gives many important biological functions such as sealing, anti-adhesion, antibacterial, and promoting nerve tissue repair, which makes the artificial dura mater change from traditional simple patches to multifunctional tissue biological scaffolds. Electrospinning provides assistance for the future development and research of ideal artificial dura mater substitutes, and brings new ideas for solving the problem of dura mater injury.

Key words: dura mater injury, dura mater substitute, electrospinning, dura mater repair, engineered material

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