Lopez-Heredia, Marco and Lapa, Agata and Reczynska, Katarzyna and Pietryga, Krzysztof and Balcaen, Lieve and Mendes, Ana and Schaubroeck, David and Van der Voort, Pascal and Dokupil, Agnieszka and Plis, Agnieszka and Stevens, Chris and Parakhonskiy, Bogdan and Samal, Sangram and Vanhaecke, Frank and Chai, Feng and Chronakis, Ioannis and Blanchemain, Nicolas and Pamula, Elzbieta and Skirtach, Andre G. and Douglas, Timothy Edward Lim (2018) Mineralization of gellan gum hydrogels with calcium and magnesium carbonates by alternate soaking for bone regeneration applications. Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, 12 (8). pp. 1825-1834. ISSN 1932-6254
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Abstract
Mineralization of hydrogels is desirable prior to applications in bone regeneration. CaCO3 is a widely used bone regeneration material and Mg, when used as a component of calcium phosphate biomaterials, has promoted bone‐forming cell adhesion and proliferation and bone regeneration. In this study, gellan gum (GG) hydrogels were mineralized with carbonates containing different amounts of calcium (Ca) and magnesium (Mg) by alternate soaking in, firstly, a calcium and/or magnesium ion solution and, secondly, a carbonate ion solution. This alternate soaking cycle was repeated five times. Five different calcium and/or magnesium ion solutions, containing different molar ratios of Ca to Mg ranging from Mg‐free to Ca‐free were compared. Carbonate mineral formed in all sample groups subjected to the Ca:Mg elemental ratio in the carbonate mineral formed was higher than in the respective mineralizing solution. Mineral formed in the absence of Mg was predominantly CaCO3 in the form of a mixture of calcite and vaterite. Increasing the Mg content in the mineral formed led to the formation of magnesian calcite, decreased the total amount of the mineral formed and its crystallinity. Hydrogel mineralization and increasing Mg content in mineral formed did not obviously improve proliferation of MC3T3‐E1 osteoblast‐like cells or differentiation after 7 days.