124 results about "Demineralized bone matrix" patented technology

An improved demineralized bone matrix (DBM) or other matrix composition is provided that has been mixed with a stabilizing agent that acts as (1) a diffusion barrier, (2) a enzyme inhibitor, (3) a competitive substrate, or (4) a masking moiety. A diffusion barrier acts as a barrier so as to protect the osteoinductive factors found in DBM from being degraded by proteolytic and glycolytic enzymes at the implantation site. Stabilizing agents may be any biodegradable material such as starches, modified starches, cellulose, dextran, polymers, proteins, and collagen. As the stabilizing agents degrades or dissolves in vivo, the osteoinductive factors such as TGF-β, BMP, and IGF are activated or exposed, and the activated factors work to recruit cells from the preivascular space to the site of injury and to cause differentiation into bone-forming cells. The invention also provides methods of preparing, testing, and using the inventive improved osteodinductive matrix compositions.

A spinal cage insert for a spinal cage is provided. The spinal cage insert has a shape suitable to be inserted into and fit closely in an interior of the spinal cage. The insert may comprise a member of the calcium phosphate family. The spinal cage insert may be made to a desired shape of porous ceramic, and it may include channels and/or surface features. Various shapes of filler pieces are also provided, wherein the filler pieces may be suitable to augment external regions of vertebrae which have been fused to each other so as to promote build-up of bone. The spinal cage insert and/or the filler pieces may be osteoconductive and may also contain osteoinductive substances or material. The articles may also contain cavities suitable for containing particles of demineralized bone matrix (DBM). Methods of use and methods of manufacturing the spinal cage insert and filler pieces are also provided.

A composition comprising a collagen protein and demineralized bone matrix is described wherein the composition is chemically cross-linked with a carbodiimide such as N-(3-dimethylaminopropyl)-N-ethylcarbodiimide hydrochloride (EDC). The crosslinking reaction can be conducted in the presence of N-hydroxysuccinimide (NHS). The collagen can be in a porous matrix or scaffolding. The DBM can be in the form of particles dispersed in the collagen. A method of making the composition is also described wherein a collagen slurry is cast into the desired shape, freeze dried to form a porous scaffolding and infitrated with a solution comprising the cross-linking agent. The composition can be used as an implant for tissue (e.g., soft tissue or bone) engineering.

An osteoinductive demineralized bone matrix, corresponding osteoimplants, and methods for making the osteoinductive demineralized bone matrix are disclosed. The osteoinductive demineralized bone matrix may be prepared by providing demineralized bone and altering the collagenous structure of the bone. The osteoinductive demineralized bone matrix may also be prepared by providing demineralized bone and compacting the bone, for example via mechanical compaction, grinding into a particulate, or treatment with a chemical. Additives such as growth factors or bioactive agents may be added to the osteoinductive demineralized bone matrix. The osteoinductive demineralized bone matrix may form an osteogenic osteoimplant. The osteoimplant, when implanted in a mammalian body, may induce at the locus of the implant the full developmental cascade of endochondral bone formation including vascularization, mineralization, and bone marrow differentiation. The osteoinductive demineralized bone matrix may also be used as a delivery device to administer bioactive agents.

Osteogenic bone implant compositions that approximate the chemical composition of natural bone are provided. The organic component of these implant compositions is osteoinductive despite the presence of the inorganic component and, further, is present in an amount sufficient to maximize the regenerative capabilities of the implant without compromising its formability and mechanical strength. The composition may be an osteoinductive powder, including demineralized bone matrix (DBM) particles, a calcium phosphate powder, and, optionally, a biocompatible cohesiveness agent. The powder may be combined with a physiologically-acceptable fluid to produce a formable, osteoinductive paste that self-hardens to form a poorly crystalline apatitic (PCA) calcium phosphate having significant compressive strength. The bone implant materials retain their cohesiveness when introduced at an implant site and are remodeled into bone in vivo. Methods for using these implant materials to repair damaged bone and a method of assaying the content of DBM particles, by weight, in a bone implant material are also provided.

The present invention is directed to a biostructure comprising an osteoconductive member and an osteoinductive material. The osteoinductive material may be located within a cavity in the osteoconductive material. In one aspect of the invention the osteoinductive material is demineralized bone matrix and the osteoconductive member comprises tricalcium phosphate.

Ceramic materials operable to repair a defect in bone of a human or animal subject comprising a porous ceramic scaffold having a bioresorbable coating, and a carrier comprising denatured demineralized bone. The ceramic may contain a material selected from the group consisting of hydroxyapatite, tricalcium phosphate, calcium phosphates, calcium carbonates, calcium sulfates, and combinations thereof. The compositions may also contain a bone material selected from the group consisting of: bone powder, bone chips, bone shavings, and combinations thereof. The bioresorbable coating may be, for example, demineralized bone matrix, gelatin, collagen, hyaluronic acid, chitosan, polyglycolic acid, polylactic acid, polypropylenefumarate, polyethylene glycol, or mixtures thereof.

Demineralized bone matrix fibers and a demineralized bone matrix composition are provided. The demineralized bone matrix fibers have an average fiber length in the range from about 250 μm to about 2 mm and an aspect ratio of greater than about 4. The demineralized bone matrix composition includes demineralized bone matrix fibers and a biocompatible liquid in an amount to produce a coherent, formable mass. The formable mass retains its cohesiveness when immersed in a liquid. Methods for making the demineralized bone matrix fibers and composition are also provided.

A demineralized bone matrix (DBM) or other matrix composition is provided that has been stabilized by lowering the pH of the composition, reducing the water content, adding water substitutes, and/or increasing the amount of deuterated water present in the composition in order to reduce the activity of endogenous degrading enzymes such as proteases. A hydrated form of a stabilized DBM composition may be stable up to a year at room temperature at acidic pH. The acidified DBM compositions may be further stabilized by the addition of a stabilizing agent such as deuterated water, water substitutes, polymers, protease inhibitors, glycerol, hydrogels, etc. The invention also provides methods of preparing, testing, and using the inventive stabilized osteodinductive matrix compositions.

Methods for increasing osteoinductivity and/or surface area of bone material are provided. The methods include providing bone material and dehydrating the bone material with a solvent at its critical point. A useful solvent for critical point dehydrating is carbon dioxide. Critical point dehydration resulting in increased osteoinductivity and/or surface area can be applied to many types of bone material including bone particles, bone chips, bone fibers, bone matrices, both demineralized and non-demineralized. An implantable composition having an enhanced osteoinductivity and/or osteoconductivity is also provided. The implantable composition contains demineralized bone matrix dried at critical point of carbon dioxide. Critical point dried fibers of a demineralized bone matrix have a BET value from about 40 m²/gm to about 100 m²/gm, a value that is 100 times higher than corresponding vacuum dried or lyophilized DBM fibers.

Bone matrix compositions and, more specifically, demineralized bone matrix (DBM) having increased osteoinductive capacity and methods for its production are provided. Specifically, DBM derived from cortical bone from the periosteal layer of bone are provided. Compositions comprising a disproportionate amount of DBM prepared from bone derived from the periosteal and/or middle layer of bone are provided. Preparations of and methods of use of periosteal DBM compositions are disclosed.

The present invention relates to a tissue defect repair implant including a porous material, wherein the material is expandable or compressible. The implant may be a scaffold, and may also be formed of a material such as, for example, collagen or demineralized bone matrix. Another aspect of the invention may be a method for the repair of a tissue defect in a patient in need thereof, including implanting an implant between two adjacent tissues, wherein the implant may include a porous material which is expandable or compressible. The two tissues may be soft tissue and hard tissue, and alternatively, the two tissues may be soft tissue, and may further be the same or different soft tissues.

A bone implant system is provided including a bone graft body having at least a demineralized surface for implantation at a bone site, the bone graft body including at least one attachment member. At least one bone delivery carrier including a covering is provided, the carrier configured to be attachable to the bone graft body and including at least one compartment. An affixing member may be provided for attaching the at least one bone delivery carrier to the at least one attachment member of the bone graft body. A demineralized bone matrix material is disposed within the at least one compartment, wherein the covering retains the demineralized bone matrix material for placement at the bone site and facilitates transfer of cells into and out of the covering.

The invention is directed to shaped bone void filler pieces having defined porosity. In embodiments of the invention, the shaped bone void filler pieces are presented substantially as wedges, wafers, and axisymmetric bone void filler pieces. The bone void filler pieces further comprise surface and internal features such as recesses, channels, and/or voids. The bone void filler pieces optionally comprise demineralized bone matrix. The invention further is directed to methods of making and methods of using the bone void filler pieces. In another embodiment of the invention, the bone void filler pieces are produced using three dimensional printing methods. In yet another embodiment of the invention, the bone void filler pieces are manufactured with selected porogens integrated therein, which optionally are decomposed following production through a heat-mediated decomposition process, resulting in voids in the bone void filler spaces previously occupied by the porogen(s).

A bone graft that is made at least partially of synthetic material or demineralized bone matrix and is of a suitable shape to fill a lower portion of a patient's maxillary sinus. The graft may be manufactured to patient-unique dimensions that may be determined radiographically prior to surgery and prior to manufacturing of the bone graft. Other aspects of the invention are a method of manufacture of the bone graft, and methods of installing the bone graft. The installation may make use of patient-unique templates to guide certain cutting operations. Another aspect of the invention is a kit comprising the bone graft, tools for its installation, templates and possibly other surgical items.

A sensitive, quantitative method to assess bone forming potential of demineralized bone matrix (DBM) is provided. Cortical DBM is treated with collagenase. The treated cortical DBM is placed in a cell culture for a dwell time. After the dwell time, the cell culture is observed for osteoblastic markers. The cortical bone so treated exhibits the same bone forming potential in vivo as untreated cortical bone.

A bone graft that is made at least partially of synthetic material or demineralized bone matrix and is manufactured in suitable shape and/or dimensions to augment an alveolar ridge. The bone graft may be such as to augment both a portion of the crest of the alveolar ridge and a portion of at least one side of the alveolar ridge. The graft may include at least one hole for the intended position of an implant base, and/or at least one hole for attachment hardware. The graft may be manufactured to standard dimensions or it may be manufactured to patient-unique dimensions which may be determined radiographically prior to surgery and prior to manufacturing of the bone graft. The bone graft may be able to be carved for dimensional adjustment during surgery. The bone graft may have composition and/or local geometry which varies from one place to another, and may have a particular composition and/or local geometry at places intended to adjoin natural bone.

Nutritional supplements and methods for maintaining and/or improving the condition of bones or cartilage in a mammal, particularly a human. One such supplement comprises demineralized bone matrix (DBM) wherein the DBM comprises a bone growth improving amount of at least one osteoinductive growth factor. A preferred supplement composition further comprises at least one vitamin, such as vitamin E. One method comprises orally administering to the mammal on a periodic basis a supplement comprising DBM. In a preferred method the DBM composition is periodically administered and there is a further periodic administration of a therapeutically effective amount of a calcium-containing composition; the calcium-containing composition is administered temporally spaced apart from said DBM composition for maximum effectiveness.

A particulate bone of defined sizes which has a unique property of direct bone osteoinduction without going through endochondral ossification stage is disclosed. The bone is not subjected to chemical extraction or decalcification. This allows for the retention of all physiologically active components of native bone. The invention hinges on the newly discovered ability of bone particles of defined sizes to exert osteoinduction by a pathway superior to and distinct from demineralized bone matrix and similar preparations.