Preparation and chemical and biological characterization of a pectin/chitosan polyelectrolyte complex scaffold for possible bone tissue engineering applications

In this work, porous scaffolds obtained from the freeze-drying of pectin/chitosan polyelectrolyte complexes were prepared and characterized by FTIR, SEM and weight loss studies. Additionally, the cytotoxicity of the prepared scaffolds was evaluated in vitro, using human osteoblast cells. The results...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor principal: Coimbra, Patrícia Manuela Almeida (author)
Outros Autores: Ferreira, Paula Cristina Nunes (author), Sousa, Herminio de (author), Batista, Patrícia Sofia Pinhanços (author), Rodrigues, Miguel (author), Correia, Ilídio Joaquim Sobreira (author), Gil, Helena (author)
Formato: article
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2018
Assuntos:
Polymeric scaffold
Polyelectrolyte complexes
Cytotoxicity
Osteoblasts
Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.6/4627
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:ubibliorum.ubi.pt:10400.6/4627
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Resumo:In this work, porous scaffolds obtained from the freeze-drying of pectin/chitosan polyelectrolyte complexes were prepared and characterized by FTIR, SEM and weight loss studies. Additionally, the cytotoxicity of the prepared scaffolds was evaluated in vitro, using human osteoblast cells. The results obtained showed that cells adhered to scaffolds and proliferated. The study also confirmed that the degradation by-products of pectin/chitosan scaffold are noncytotoxic.

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