Lab for Smart & Bioinspired Materials, College of Bioengineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400030, China; Key Laboratory of Biorheological Science and Technology (Chongqing University), Ministry of Education, Chongqing, 400030, China.
Department 4, State Key Lab of Trauma, Burns and Combined Injury, Institute of Surgery Research, Daping Hospital, Army Medical University, Chongqing, 400042, China.
Biomaterials. 2019 Jul;207:61-75. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2019.03.041. Epub 2019 Mar 29.
Well-aligned collagen fiber scaffolds are considered promising candidates for tendon tissue engineering in terms of their biomimetic chemical composition and topographic structure. Insoluble collagen fibers are more suitable for the preparation of scaffolds than soluble collagens due to their more approximate self-assembly and mechanical properties to native collagen ECMs. In this work, we employed counter-rotating extrusion technology for the first time to fabricate an aligned (CM, orientation angle 0°-15°) and a randomly-oriented (CM, orientation angle -60°-60°) collagen membrane from insoluble collagens. CM had a tensile strength comparable with native rat Achilles tendon (18.45 ± 0.91 MPa vs. 22.32 ± 2.48 MPa). Thus, CM represents a scaffold that is biomimetic of native tendon tissues in chemical composition, alignment, and mechanical properties. To verify the feasibility of CMs in tendon tissue engineering, we investigated the in vitro tenogenic differentiation of rBMSCs on CMs and the in vivo tendon regeneration using a rat Achilles tendon defect model. Detection of the tendon-related genes and proteins revealed that CM can promote significantly higher tenogenic differentiation of rBMSCs than CM, by inducing an elongated cell shape along the fibers. The in-situ tendon repair study further confirmed that CM-BMSCs can produce a comparable healing quality to the autogenous tendon. Overall, our results verify the feasibility of the counter-rotating extrusion technology in fabricating biomimetic collagen scaffolds and provide a promising scaffold for tendon tissue regeneration.
在仿生化学组成和形貌结构方面,取向良好的胶原纤维支架被认为是肌腱组织工程有前途的候选材料。不溶性胶原纤维比可溶性胶原更适合制备支架,因为它们更接近天然胶原 ECM 的自组装和机械性能。在这项工作中,我们首次采用反向旋转挤出技术,由不溶性胶原制备出取向(CM,取向角 0°-15°)和随机取向(CM,取向角-60°-60°)胶原膜。CM 的拉伸强度与天然大鼠跟腱相当(18.45±0.91 MPa 比 22.32±2.48 MPa)。因此,CM 代表了一种在化学组成、取向和机械性能上仿生天然肌腱组织的支架。为了验证 CM 在肌腱组织工程中的可行性,我们研究了 CM 上 rBMSCs 的体外肌腱分化和大鼠跟腱缺损模型中的体内肌腱再生。肌腱相关基因和蛋白的检测表明,CM 可以通过诱导细胞沿纤维伸长来显著促进 rBMSCs 的更高肌腱分化。原位肌腱修复研究进一步证实,CM-BMSCs 可以产生与自体肌腱相当的愈合质量。总的来说,我们的结果验证了反向旋转挤出技术在制备仿生胶原支架方面的可行性,并为肌腱组织再生提供了一种有前途的支架。
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