Effects of water-holding capability of the PVF sponge on the adhesion and differentiation of rat bone marrow stem cell culture.

Togami, Wakana; Sei, Akira; Okada, Tatsuya; Taniwaki, Takuya; Fujimoto, Toru; Nakamura, Takayuki; Tahata, Shogo; Nakanishi, Yoshitaka et al. · J Biomed Mater Res A · 2014

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

The aim of the study is to estimate the effects of the water-holding capability of the polyvinyl formal (PVF) sponges on osteogenic response in vitro experiments. The rat bone marrow stem cells (BMCs) were seeded and cultured for up to 4 weeks under static conditions in osteogenic media to evaluate the adhesion, proliferation, differentiation, and mineralization on the Dextran-coated PVF sponges with or without water-holding capability. The BMCs seeded onto the PVF sponges with water-holding capability showed more significant increases in DNA content, alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity, osteocalcin content, and calcium deposition than those without water-holding capability. These results suggest that the Dextran-coated PVF sponges with high water-holding capability would have potential uses as both a new scaffold to bone tissue engineering and as a new biomaterial.

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