Issue 6, 2019

Air-plasma treatment promotes bone-like nano-hydroxylapatite formation on protein films for enhanced in vivo osteogenesis

Abstract

Introducing hydroxylapatite (HAp) into biomolecular materials is a promising approach to improve their bone regenerative capability. Thus a facile method needs to be developed to achieve this goal. Here we show that a simple air-plasma treatment of silk fibroin (SF) films for 5 min induced the formation of bone-like plate-shaped nano-HAp (nHAp) on their surface and the resultant material efficiently enhanced in vivo osteogenesis. The air-plasma-treated SF films (termed A-SF) presented surface nano-pillars and enhanced hydrophilicity compared to the pristine SF films (termed SF), making the A-SF and SF films induce the formation of plate-shaped/more-crystalline and needle-like/less-crystalline nHAp, respectively. The mineralized A-SF and SF films (termed A-SF-nHAp and SF-nHAp, respectively) and their non-mineralized counterparts were seeded with rat mesenchymal stem cells and subcutaneously implanted into the rat models. The A-SF-nHAp and A-SF films exhibited more efficient bone formation than the SF-nHAp and SF films in 4 weeks due to their unique nanotopography, with the A-SF-nHAp films being more efficient than the A-SF films. This work shows that a combination of the air-plasma treatment and the subsequent nHAp mineralization most efficiently promotes bone formation. Our plasma-based method is an attractive approach to enhance the bone regenerative capacity of protein-based biomaterials.

Graphical abstract: Air-plasma treatment promotes bone-like nano-hydroxylapatite formation on protein films for enhanced in vivo osteogenesis

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
04 Jan 2019
Accepted
17 Mar 2019
First published
25 Mar 2019

Biomater. Sci., 2019,7, 2326-2334

Air-plasma treatment promotes bone-like nano-hydroxylapatite formation on protein films for enhanced in vivo osteogenesis

Q. Zhang, L. Ma, S. Zheng, Y. Wang, M. Feng, Y. Shuai, B. Duan, X. Fan, M. Yang and C. Mao, Biomater. Sci., 2019, 7, 2326 DOI: 10.1039/C9BM00020H

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